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Zack Cooper1, James Han2, Neale Mahoney3
1Zack Cooper is an associate professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Yale School of Public Health and an associate professor in the Department of Economics, Yale University, in New Haven, Connecticut. He is also a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Abstract:
We analyzed Wisconsin court records from the period 2001-18 to document trends in hospital lawsuits to recover patients' unpaid medical bills. These lawsuits increased 37 percent during this period, from 1.12 per 1,000 residents in 2001 to 1.53 per 1,000 residents in 2018, with lawsuits being disproportionately directed at Black patients and patients living in poorer and less densely populated counties.
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