Law Practice
Jan. 9, 2009
S.F. Accused of Overcharging Patients
Poor patients who paid discounted fees to Bay Area hospitals claim the city and county of San Francisco still charge them too much. They have filed a lawsuit alleging the city and county broke state laws requiring medical providers to treat indigent patients for free if they are unable to pay.
Daily Journal Staff Writer Some might count the $34 that Wilfredo Corea, a San Francisco janitor with prostate disease, paid for subsidized medications as a sign of success for the city's trumpeted universal health care program. Corea, who struggled and failed to make that and other medical payments, does not. In a lawsuit filed last week, Corea and two other poor patients who paid discounted fees to Bay Area hospitals alle...
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