Despicable

NY Times: Their Baby Died in the Hospital. Then Came the $257,000 Bill. A New York family had good health insurance. But the bills for their daughter’s care started showing up and kept coming. By Sarah Kliff

Medical billing experts who reviewed the case described it as a dispute between a large hospital and a large insurer, with the patient stuck in the middle. The experts say such cases are not frequent but speak to the wider lack of predictability in American medical billing, with patients often having little idea what their care will cost until a bill turns up in the mail months later.