The bill looked like BS. So she took it to small claims court.
“I sued a hospital in small claims court and lost — here’s what I learned.” That was the subject line for an email we got from listener Lauren Slemenda.
She wrote: “I feel like I won” — and we knew we needed to talk with her.
She wants to encourage more people to try taking providers to court over unfair bills.
“If everybody that they screw stands up,” she says, “They can't afford to pay a lawyer to defend against all of those [cases].”
It’s an interesting idea for sure — What if more people use small claims court to fight messed-up medical bills? Like, a lot more people? — and we’ll be…
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