Wearing her black and gray uniform, she had a different kind of appointment with her employer: the hospital was suing her for unpaid medical bills. The figures do not include debts incurred by onetime Methodist employees who have since moved on. Between January and mid-June, a reporter observed more than a dozen Methodist employees in court to defend themselves in suits brought by the hospital over hospital bills. Hardly a week goes by in which Methodist workers aren’t on the court docket fighting debt lawsuits filed by their employer. The employee gave the reporter six years of itemized Methodist hospital bills, her credit report and other past-due medical bills.

Source: The Guardian June 28, 2019 10:52 UTC