Atrium Health, North Carolina's top collector of medical debt in recent years, has stopped suing patients for unpaid medical bills.
For the past five and a half years North Carolina hospitals brought 5,922 lawsuits against about 7,500 patients and their families, according to published reports. And the courts, in 3,449 cases, favored the hospitals, which amounted to a total of $57.3 million in debt collection or about $16,623 per judgment spanning from January 2017 to June 2022.
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