After treating patients covered by Medical Savings Insurance Co., local hospitals eventually noted it owed hundreds of thousands of dollars in bills. How did Medical Savings respond? By refusing to pay. That move prompted Lee Memorial Health System to file a class action lawsuit last year, saying Medical Savings had run up $500,000 in unpaid claims. Earlier this month, Naples Community Hospital filed its own lawsuit because Medical Savings owed it $600,000. (On Feb. 17, a Lee County circuit judge dismissed Lee Memorial's lawsuit against Medical Savings, largely citing technical grounds.)
Posted by Editor at June 19, 2004 01:48 AM