Cash-strapped U.S. hospitals say Kuwait owes them at least $677 million

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The wealthy Persian Gulf nation has not paid its bills for medical care in the U.S. for three years, the hospitals contend.

The government of Kuwait owes some of the United States’ top hospitals nearly $700 million in unpaid bills for sophisticated medical care provided to Kuwaiti nationals, a debt the frustrated institutions have spent years trying to collect.

Noting the financial damage to hospitals wrought by the covid-19 pandemic, the organization wrote that “with . . . individual hospitals having to bear the burden of maintaining multimillion-dollar balances over multiple years, the current system has become impractical and unsustainable for hospitals across the United States.”

Still, the current backlog has lasted much longer than any previous one, said Jarrett Fowler, director of the international patient cooperative, who wrote the letter to Kuwaiti officials. Previous debts have been outstanding for as long as a year, he said. Kuwait is alone among nations who send patients to U.S. hospitals in its extended failure to pay.“Me writing that letter is evidence that we’re in extraordinary circumstances,” Fowler said in an interview.

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