Fumiko Ladd Chino: Examining Inequitable Medical Debt Practices That Harm Vulnerable Patients
Fumiko Ladd Chino, Associate Professor in Radiation Oncology at MD Anderson Cancer Center, shared a post on X about a paper by Mary Shannon et al. published in JAMA Network Open:
“This Mary Shannon paper examines St Louis physicians’ practices who SUE their patients.
There are inequitable impacts of medical debt collection. Areas with higher % of Black residents and lower incomes face higher lawsuits, higher judgments, and higher wage garnishment.”
Medical debt is an indicator of an inherent failure of our health system to protect the most vulnerable. Aggressively pursuing medical debt does little to serve the financial bottom line of a hospital, while exposing the most vulnerable to a lifetime of downstream consequences.
As part of efforts to build a more just health care system that re-centers patient dignity at its core, policy solutions from state and federal governments are needed to reform aggressive debt collection practices or to retire them altogether.”
Title: Lawsuits for Unpaid Medical Bills and the Role of Physician Groups
Authors: Mary Shannon, Kathryn Koch, Molly Metzger
You can read the Full Article on JAMA Network Open.
You can also read the commentary on this article.
Title: Rethinking Medical Debt Lawsuits—A Call for Systemic Change
Authors: Justin Barnes, Qasim Hussaini
Read Justin M. Barnes’ post “Calling Out Predatory Medical Debt Lawsuits and Calling for Change” on OncoDaily.
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