The Washington Post asserts that "Over six years ending in June 2018, University of Virginia Health System the health system and its doctors sued former patients more than 36,000 times for over $106 million, seizing wages and bank accounts, putting liens on property and homes and forcing families into bankruptcy, a Kaiser Health News analysis has found."
Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore has sued roughly 240 patients a year on average since 2009. Yale New Haven Health System files liens only if a bill is over $10,000, and then only if the property is worth at least $300,00. Inova Health does not file liens on patient homes or garnish wages. Tenet Healthcare, a national, for-profit chain whose stock trades on Wall Street,
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