Debt Collectors Take Places Alongside Hospital Staffs
Wednesday, April 25, 2012 - 01:50
in Health & Medicine
One of the United States’ largest medical debt-collection companies is under fire in Minnesota for placing employees in hospitals and demanding patients pay before receiving treatment, documents show.
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