Father finds $9,000 worth of errors in hospital bill [View All]

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DENVER - It wasn't that Will Schafer didn't feel grateful for the care his son received during a short stay in The Children's Hospital. Yet looking at the bill, Schafer recalls, he felt sick.


Then he says he felt angry.

"I get a bill and it's $21,000," said the 46-year-old sales manager for Transwest Trucks in Commerce City, whose medical insurance required he pay 20 percent, or $4,000. "There was no surgery. There were no broken bones. … So I'm going, 'How can this be?'"

It took weeks for the Schafers to sort through the bills from their son, Michael's, hospital stay, but in the end, they found $9,000 worth of accounting errors. Their bill was adjusted, but it's a cautionary tale that health care consumer advocates say others should heed.

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Double check those bills.