25. What Your Hospital Bill Isn't Telling You (A Nurse Explains)

You went to the hospital. You got care. You came home. And then the bills started arriving, one after another, for amounts that didn't add up. And somewhere in your online patient portal was a diagnosis you had never been told about, for a condition nobody mentioned while you were lying in that bed. If that has happened to you or someone you love, you are not alone. And you are not missing something obvious. The hospital system was simply never designed to explain itself to the people moving ...