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NEW REPORT: 15 years of Virginia court records reveal hospitals filed 1.15 million lawsuits against patients
PatientRightsAdvocate.org (PRA), along with George Washington University Law School and Stanford University’s Clinical Excellence Research Center, released a new academic report analyzing 15 years of Virginia court records, revealing a coordinated “medical debt ecosystem” in which hospitals, law firms, and courts collectively extract billions from patients.
