An Emory Healthcare patient financial services employee told Davis in an email that “you get charged before you are seen. Not for being seen,” according to the WAGA report.
Following the incident, Davis told the local news station that she now considers hospital as a “last resort.”
“Seeing that they’re able to bill you for random things, it doesn’t make me want to go,” Davis said. “So that’s not good.”
A spokesperson for Emory Healthcare said it “has been working with the individual to address this matter, and correct inaccuracies that may have been assessed or communicated.”
“Anyone who needs emergent medical care should seek a health care provider as soon as possible,” the spokesperson said in an email to Insider. “Emory Healthcare, like hospitals around the country, treats all emergency room patients irrespective of their ability to pay.”
