[paulpauper]

These sort of stories like these go viral. The amount paid is nowhere close to that, sometimes nothing is paid. The final price is always negotiated vastly lower. The patient often pays a tiny fraction of this. It's bad that this happens in the first place though. There is something wrong when people getting these outrageous bills in the first place. Hospitals send out these bills in the hope a tiny fraction of people pay in full.

[pengaru]

> The amount paid is nowhere close to that, sometimes nothing is paid. The final price is always negotiated vastly lower.

Wow, look at the Stockholm Syndrome on this guy!

As if that's an acceptable normal process for anyone to be subjected to...

[schemescape]

Looks like there was already an outrageous payment:

> Even with plan discounts, United Healthcare still paid more than $58,000 for the couple's rabies treatment.