So evidently if you aren't insured you can try and bring a suit against a hospital. Just find out what an ins co WILL pay and they just might lower the charges?

http://www.naplesnews.com/news/2007/feb ... _d/?latest

Naples-based HMA settles class-action suit with Consejo de Latinos Unidos
Thursday, February 1, 2007

Consejo de Latinos Unidos announced a settlement Thursday with Naples-based hospital operator Health Management Associates that will lower costs for patients without insurance.

A class-action suit was filed against HMA challenging its pricing practices for the uninsured. HMA charged the class representative, Jose Manuel Quintana, $3,040 after he visited one of its hospitals for chest pain. An insurance company would have paid no more than $1,000 for the visit, according to Consejo.

HMA will now offer discounts and refunds of up to 60 percent to the uninsured, and charge them the hospital's average managed care rate.

In January 2003, Consejo made national headlines after coercing the nation's second largest for-profit hospital system, Tenet

Healthcare, to change its aggressive pricing policy for the uninsured.