Lecture: Medical Debt and Your Rights
Location:
Dance Hall
With the high cost of medical treatment, many cancer patients are at risk
of incurring huge debt. This presentation will focus on steps that can be
taken prior to treatment to avoid, or reduce the amount of, out-of-pocket
medical costs. It will address the rights of patients faced with substantial
hospital bills, and provide information that will assist in negotiations with
hospitals and medical providers. For patients whose debts have been
sent to collections, there will be advice about their rights under the debt
protection law. In either case, knowledge of legal rights can increase the
ability to negotiate from a position of strength.