More and more hospitals are checking credit before providing expensive treatment, especially to people who carry no health insurance.
But it may not be what you think. Check out this example:
A woman in Dallas received over $100,000 in free treatment for skull and neck injuries suffered in 2005. Then in 2006 when she returned for a scheduled cat scan, she was denied.
Not because her credit was too low, but because it was TOO HIGH. To the hospital, she no longer qualified as indigent based almost exclusively on her increasingly positive credit score!
Other examples and more analysis are contained in this article from Business Week.
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