Niewinski, et. al. v. Resurrection Health Care Corporation

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Summary

On September 16, 2004, Mehri & Skalet, PLLC filed a lawsuit in Illinois state court on behalf of uninsured patients against Resurrection Health Care Corporation (Resurrection), a not-for-profit health care system that includes nine hospitals in the Chicago metropolitan area. The suit alleges that Resurrection charges uninsured patients substantially more than patients covered by insurance and fails to provide poor patients with an adequate opportunity to apply for financial assistance with their bills. In addition to price gouging the uninsured and reducing its charitable expenditures, Resurrection employs unjust methods of collecting overdue bills, harassing even the poorest patients with collection lawsuits and garnishing their wages. M&S filed a motion to certify the class on April 11, 2005. The case was originally dismissed by a judge but the complaint has been amended and refiled. It is still pending.