Santa Clara Valley Medical Center billed patients and sent them to collections for charges they should not have been required to pay.
This article was published on Monday, August 14, 2023 in KFF Health News.
California’s largest public hospital plans to start notifying 43,000 former patients Monday that they may be eligible for refunds or billing corrections, part of what advocates called a major legal settlement that will help force the hospital to fulfill its charity care obligations.
Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, along with other units of county-owned Santa Clara Valley Healthcare, will also adopt procedures to ensure patients are informed of their eligibility for charity care, which nonprofit and public hospitals must provid…
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