Sentences with phrase «by hospital bills»

A policy that caps liability coverage at $ 100,000 will almost certainly be cheaper than a policy offering $ 300,000 of coverage but you could end up on the hook for some major expenses if someone is seriously injured in your apartment as $ 100,000 will quickly be eaten up by hospital bills.

App., 2013)(«In short, the lien allows the hospital to step into the shoes of the [injured person] for purposes of receiving payment from the [tortfeasor or the] tortfeasor's insurance company for economic damages represented by the hospital bill.»).

Not exact matches

Toronto - area hospital Bridgepoint Active Healthcare is shopping an ambitious plan to shave $ 4 billion - $ 6 billion annually off Ontario's bill by focusing on that minority.

Second, the tax bill may do away with 2 specific types of municipal bond issues: tax - exempt advance refundings, which are tax - exempt bonds issued to refinance existing municipal debt, and private activity bonds, which are issued by non-government borrowers such as hospitals, airports, and private universities.

She ends up kidnapped and brutally abused by one Ned «Higher - and - Higher,» and Bill comes to her in the hospital after seeing her story in the paper.

The kind of broke when businesses and economies slump, dragging incomes down with them, when babies are born without insurance and ginormous hospital bills go unpaid for far too long and interest heaps on, when businesses die and new jobs can't be found, when mortgages can only be covered by the good grace of family members, and when food is bought on credit or gift cards from kind friends.

So that little girl will get the treatment she needs, the costs for that treatment will be absorbed by the hospital, and you and I end up getting bills that show we paid $ 100 for a Q - tip when we stayed overnight for an appendectomy.

One person in attendance was hit in the head by the debris and was taken by ambulance to the hospital, according to Bill Persinger, a spokesman for Austin Peay.

And, unlike an epidural which requires a hospital birth and the presence (and a bill from) an anesthesiologist, nitrous oxide can often be offered at a birth center by a midwife.

DayOne Baby offers Hospitals a completely outsourced outpatient breast pump rental program so that Hospitals can focus on what they do best, and can offer this vital service to patients by allowing us to deal with supply chain and inventory issues, logistics of serialized of capital equipment, billing, collecting, retrieval, cleaning, servicing, calibrating and all of the myriad additional details that running such a program entails.

Also, the money seems not to be the main reason — if it was, people would not pay extra out of pocket for lay midwives if their hospital birth was covered by insurance, something that often happens, and people would definitely think twice before paying for the services of midwives in full at 36 weeks and then if they have to transfer end up with further hospital bills — these are not rational monetary decisions, they are paying these con artist in order to reinforce their feelings or beliefs.

But he also said hospitals are sending mixed signals by both lobbying against that bill and asking for help.

«By signing the MOE bill into law, you can ensure that our public colleges and universities — and our public teaching hospitals — will have the funding they need,» Adams wrote in the letter.

«By blocking Westminster Bridge we symbolically block the bill from getting from parliament to our hospitals,» organisers said.

Hospitals across England are using debt - collectors and, in some cases, bailiffs to chase outstanding bills owed by migrant users of the NHS.

MANHATTAN — Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio set aside their differences Monday to stand together against the pending Republican health care bill at a rally hosted by Mount Sinai HospiBill de Blasio set aside their differences Monday to stand together against the pending Republican health care bill at a rally hosted by Mount Sinai Hospibill at a rally hosted by Mount Sinai Hospital.

At 11:30 a.m., Laura Curran, Democratic Candidate for Nassau County executive, will stand with those who would be hurt by the Senate Republicans» health care bill to discuss its impact, South Nassau Hospital, 1 Healthy Way, Oceanside, Long Island.

The event will focus on three measures currently before the houses that advance state protections and rights of sexual assault survivors: S. 6428A / A. 8401A - which establishes a Sexual Assault Survivor Bill of Rights and requires unreported sexual assault evidence kits be maintained for 20 years in a secure, centralized location; S. 6947A — which establishes a Sexual Assault Forensic Examination (SAFE) Telemedicine Pilot Program; and S. 6964A — which ensures sexual assault forensic exams performed by hospitals are free of charge to the sexual assault survivor.

A bill sponsored by Senate Health Chairman Kemp Hannon (R - Nassau County) from 2013 through 2016 called for a pilot project that would authorize business corporations to acquire as many as 10 hospitals.68 These corporations could not be publicly traded, but their owners would be exempt from other requirements, including the «natural person» rule, character and competence reviews and prior approval of sales and transfers.

The Graham - Cassidy bill is an obvious attempt to contain the political damage done by July's failed effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act, and it should be rejected along with planned cuts to services provided by hospitals for low - income and uninsured patients.»

The CEO of New York Presbyterian hospital is the latest to get involved in the ongoing fight over Medical Malpractice reform — issuing this statement attacking the Assembly bill sponsored by Rory Lancman.

Sir Bill, having just been in hospital, made his speech while sitting on his bench — Deputy Speaker Lindsay Hoyle urging him not to strain himself by standing.

(The bill is separate from the medical marijuana research program launched by the governor this year, which granted permission to 20 hospitals to provide such treatment to their patients with serious illnesses.)

New York hospitals and nursing homes would have to adopt minimum staffing requirements and establish nurse - to - patient ratios in all nursing units under a bill passed by the state Assembly.

More information on the execution - style killing of the officers will be provided by Police Commissioner Bill Bratton at a 7 p.m. press conference that he's holding on the third floor of Woodhull Hospital in Brooklyn, she said.

Mayor Bill de Blasio, who joined the commissioner at the hospital, said the episode was the latest example of bravery by the New York City police.

The bill, which passed unanimously in both chambers last June, would have narrowed the definition of a safety net to include: a public hospital, with the exception of SUNY; a federally designated critical access or sole community hospital; or a hospital that has at least 50 percent of its patients uninsured or on Medicaid, 40 percent of its inpatient population covered by Medicaid, not more than 25 percent of its discharges using commercial insurance, and at least 3 percent of its patients uninsured.

An investigation by New York's attorney general found that the Brooklyn Hospital Center improperly billed dozens of patients for the cost of forensic rape exams.

Protest rallies by supporters of Long Island College Hospital have been continuing on an almost daily basis, and at one of them, Assemblywoman Joan Millman folowed Public Advocate Bill de Blasio and City Councilman Steve Levin's earlier lead when she was arrested for civil disobedience.

More than two years later, the cancer was detected by a second physician, three months after the deadline by which she could sue the hospital, which she said had given her a clean bill of health.

«I was very impressed by not only the bravery in the face of something absolutely unexpected, but the way the two officers responded to the incident and were able to stop the situation and deal with the perpetrator,» Mayor Bill de Blasio said at a press conference from the hospital.

Toluwani Eniola writes about new mothers detained by hospital authorities for their inability to settle bills Sweeping the floor of the female ward at the Imo Specialist Hospital, Umuguma, Owerri, the Imo State capital, Mrs. Chinyere Nlemuwa cut the picture of a cleaner in the hhospital authorities for their inability to settle bills Sweeping the floor of the female ward at the Imo Specialist Hospital, Umuguma, Owerri, the Imo State capital, Mrs. Chinyere Nlemuwa cut the picture of a cleaner in the hHospital, Umuguma, Owerri, the Imo State capital, Mrs. Chinyere Nlemuwa cut the picture of a cleaner in the hospitalhospital.

The bill has also been criticized by doctors, insurance groups and hospitals, who have said the legislation will disproportionately affect low - income and elderly Americans.

«Voters are responding to Bill de Blasio because he is the only Democrat who will boldly break from the Bloomberg years by raising taxes on the wealthy to invest in universal pre-K and after - school programs, ending racial profiling, and fighting to save community hospitals,» the de Blasio campaign said in a statement.

According to a new analysis by Empire Center health policy director Bill Hammond, a $ 1.1 billion - dollar state program to reimburse hospital charity care is shortchanging hospitals that serve poorer patient to the benefit of those that serve more affluent populations.

By Tuesday evening, Heastie had attended 11 events: a meeting with Syracuse mayor Stephanie Miner and Assemblyman Bill Magnarelli; visits to a pre-school, Syracuse University, three hospitals, the city's Near Westside neighborhood, a community center, a research and development company; the blood drive; and, finally, an event hosted by a group of Syracuse - based organizationBy Tuesday evening, Heastie had attended 11 events: a meeting with Syracuse mayor Stephanie Miner and Assemblyman Bill Magnarelli; visits to a pre-school, Syracuse University, three hospitals, the city's Near Westside neighborhood, a community center, a research and development company; the blood drive; and, finally, an event hosted by a group of Syracuse - based organizationby a group of Syracuse - based organizations.

The research was also funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Bill and Melinda Gates through the Global Good Fund, the National Institutes of Health, and the Division of Gastroenterology at Brigham and Women's Hospital.

«McLean Hospital and the research being done by Bill Carlezon, PhD, chief of the Division of Basic Neuroscience, and his team will hopefully someday help to identify the causes of autism to better treat it, and the Franciscan Children's program is part of a critical support system for children and their families affected by autism.

Hospitalists typically work in shifts; therefore, within the same hospital, patients treated by hospitalists are plausibly quasi-randomized to a given physician based on when patients become sick and based on hospitalists» work schedule.34 We defined hospitalists using a validated approach: general internists who filed at least 90 % of their total evaluation and management billings in an inpatient setting.35 Second, to evaluate whether our findings were sensitive to how we attributed patients to physicians, we tested the following 2 alternative attribution methods: attributing patients to physicians who had the largest number of evaluation and management claims and attributing patients to physicians who billed the first evaluation and management claim for a given hospitalization.25, 36,37 Third, within some hospitals, male internists may be more likely to work in intensive care units and have severely ill patients.

Rick is simply an opportunist, and this booming opportunity has been handed to him by the banks through adjustable - rate mortgages, the federal government through lax regulations, and the needs (taking a reverse mortgage to cover hospital bills) and wants (adding an unnecessary but stylish patio to a house) of ordinary people.

Spyros's illness is charted out from his daughter's perspective (all the way through to the indignities of hospital bills), but death's pall is offset by the games that unexpectedly punctuate the movie.

Based on the comic series originally started by Chris Claremont and Bill McLeod (though heavily inspired by the art of Bill Sienkiewicz), the film will be the franchise's first straight - up horror film, and it looks as though the story will primarily take place within the confines of a dilapidated hospital.

The bill is supported by the American Academy of Pediatrics, California State PTA, American Academy of Sleep Medicine, California Federation of Teachers, California Sleep Society and several hospitals, school districts and student advocacy groups.

The $ 5,000 raised by refinancing the bad credit auto loan in our example can be used to clear the credit card debts, or pay an unexpected hospital bill, or used to pay college fees.

Debt can be accumulated by borrowing money, unexpected expenses that come up, medical conditions and hospital bills can lead to debt.

Fact: Roughly half of all collections tradelines that appear on credit reports are reported by debt collectors seeking to collect on medical bills claimed to be owed to hospitals and other medical providers.

Apart from that, you can get a medical bill audit done to rule out any chances of error by the hospital staff.

According to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), roughly half of all collections that appear on credit reports are reported by debt collectors seeking to collect on medical bills claimed to be owed to hospitals and other medical providers.

Although it might cost a little more for your policy if you're considered higher risk by your insurer, warns Korcok, that's small potatoes compared to the hefty hospital bill you could face if your claim is denied.

I understand the frustration of a medical bill that should have been paid by insurance, and fighting with the hospital or clinic.