Coronavirus patients in the United States are, in theory, supposed to be close to fully exempt from their medical bills, but stories of Americans experiencing the opposite are starting to amass
Photo: Misha Friedman/Getty Images Coronavirus patients in the United States are, in theory, supposed to be close to fully exempt from their medical bills. Congress has passed over $175 billion in emergency taxpayer funding for hospitals and health-care providers, intended to help these institutions shoulder the costs of testing and treating the coronavirus so that everyone — even those without insurance — can receive care without having to worry about how they will afford it.
Flor says he thinks his bill will be thankfully covered almost entirely by Medicare, for which he is eligible as an elderly patient. But many other coronavirus patients who have also received large bills are not so lucky. Despite efforts by Congress to reduce individual expenses, our labyrinthine, patchwork, and exhausting health-care system has left people vulnerable to loopholes in insurance funding and hospital billing, unregulated testing costs, and mind-blowingly confusing paperwork.
Mendez is insured by Cigna, through her job as an administrative assistant at a Domino’s franchise, but she told the Times that she still believes her share of the cost will only be “under $10,000.” Before submitting to Cigna, she received harassing phone calls from the hospital, she told the paper.
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