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From the emergency room to the courtroom: Va. medical providers sued patients for nearly $590 million over past five years
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Virginia Mercury
Of those, no medical provider filed more lawsuits or won more judgments than MCV Physicians, the VCU doctors group that sued Washington.
For example, MCV filed 4,372 more lawsuits than Inova Healthcare, which has more patient beds at its Fairfax flagship hospital.
According to the Virginia Health Care Foundation, there were 718,000 people living without insurance in Virginia in 2016, the most recent year the data was available.
If you included those factors, she said, likely about 20 to 30 percent of bankruptcies are caused by medical debt.
She was able to work out a payment plan with MCV Physicians before they began garnishing her pay check.
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