Everyone knows that hospital treatment can be expensive, but this is ridiculous. A software glitch at a southern Arizona hospital in July, coupled with a failure to manually review bills for errors, meant a $49 million bill was sent to one of the 587 patients who received gargantuan hospital bills in error that month.Nashville-based Healthcare Management Systems, which processes statements for Northern Cochise Community Hospital in Wilcox, AZ, took the heat for the errors, saying they usually check the statements manually, but didn't this time because they had a high volume of bills that day.
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