Consumer advocates want limits on debt-collecting practices
Hospitals call lawsuits âlast resortâ to recoup reimbursement March 5, 2021 3:03 PM By Alex Ruoff (Adds Upper Chesapeake Health response beginning in sixth paragraph.)
Nick Mostris had hoped to buy his parentsâ home, situated on the outskirts of Baltimore County, from his brothers after their mother died in 2019.
Yet an almost 30-year-old hospital bill accrued by his father, who died in 2007 after a long battle with brain cancer, put that dream out of reach.
Mostris, a stagehand who still lives in the area, and his brothers discovered a lien on the property stemming from almost $26,000 owed to Fallston General Hospital, now part of University of Maryland Upper Chesapeake Health. That debt, originally about $6,000, ballooned because of court fees and interest accumulated over 19 years of legal battles between lawyers with the hospital and the Mostris family, state court records show.
The COVID-19 vaccines are designed to protect everyone who receives the shots, regardless of race, gender, age, body type, but they are not getting to all groups in Harford County in an equitable manner, according to the local health officer.
The University of Maryland Upper Chesapeake Health is offering antibody treatments that have the potential to reduce the progression of severe coronavirus illness.|| Coronavirus updates | Maryland s latest numbers | Get tested | Vaccine Info ||Clinicians at the medical center said they will provide monoclonal antibody treatments in their infusion center.Leslie Clark, registered nurse and assistant vice president of population health, administers some of the infusions. Clark said the antibody treatments bind to the coronavirus.“It prevents attachment to our human cells, so they don t continue to replicate in our body, which in turn, prevents hospitalization and prevents mortality or death,” Clark said.Colin Ward, the COO for University of Maryland Upper Chesapeake Health, said the Baltimore Convention Center offers this treatment. The medical center wanted to bring that kind of treatment closer.“We found that some of the patients who meet the criteria have a tough time gett
Harford County schools Superintendent Sean Bulson vented his frustration regarding a lack of vaccines for school system staff, accusing state leaders of taking vaccines that could go to local health departments and keeping them for state-designated mass vaccination sites that have opened in Baltimore and Prince George’s County.
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