By Luiza Ch. Savage, Staff Reporter for the Sun
WASHINGTON – Congress is yet again asking New York-Presbyterian Hospital to provide detailed information about its operations. This time, a House panel is scrutinizing how the nation’s largest hospitals bill their uninsured patients and people injured in automobile accidents.
The inquiry comes as Capitol Hill lawmakers are becoming increasingly concerned that hospitals are accepting public funds and tax breaks to provide care to the poor and uninsured while driving many such patients into bankruptcy through inflated charges and aggressive bill collection.
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