The hospital told her surgery would cost $1,337 out of pocket. It billed her $303,709.

St. Anthony North Hospital in Westminster, Colorado, told an insured patient, Linda French, that her surgery would cost her only $1,337 out of pocket. Afterward, it billed her for $303,709and sued her to get it. After a ten-year legal battle, the Colorado Supreme Court told the hospital's owner, Centura Health, to go pound sandand criticized it for secret charges that it failed to disclose in the contract it had her sign. — Read the rest