virginia: My boyfriend did not have health insurance and was admitted to a Virginia hospital. He was in the Cardiac ICU for 15 hours and passed away. He did not have any surgery. The bill for the hospital is $62,000 and the doctor's bill is $6000. This is with no health insurance or Medicare. I am the executor of his estate and there is not enough money for these and it seems excessive for 15 hours. What recourse, if any, do I have?|||The nurses and the billing department run a hospital. The amount billed seems insane to me. I assume they thought it was an insurance case or government program so the payer was not a real person. I would ask for meeting to mitigate the amount of the bill to conform with the standards in the normal course of medical practice. I really cannot imagine the figure 62K but the medical community is so exalted by the public that you look like the bad guy as the executor. I would seek guidance from the Virginia equivalent of the Health Cost Review Authority that exists in my state. The State Health Dept. of Virginia should point you to some mediation board. I would like to think that the adminstrator of the hospital would compromise the bill. You could talk to a lawyer; but, I would talk with the hospital pressure point. It could be a nurse or the hospital administrator. I am certain that the doctor has little or no concern about your problem. I am not familar with a doctor who has a genuine interest in a patient. Your doctor here may be the exception but that is only 6K. You are talking about 68K total?|||If the Virgina Hospital is a Non-Profit they will not be able to sue on a civil court for profit for the surgery due to the Non-Profit status. Being the patient is the beneficiary of the charities and it's cause. As long as the executor is not rich they wouldn't be able to Non Charity the claim "lack of better word". Move anything away from debt collectors who may attempt to collect this money if you have that much. Anyway their not going to be able to sue, but will use all the traps to convince you to settle the debt. You may have to pay the doctor bill because that doesn't ably to the Non-Profit. No one has been able to solve/recourse the high cost of health care in the USA.