screenshot of the abstract of a report: Hospitals Suing Patients: The Rise of Stealth Intermediaries
by Barak Richman, Julie Havlak, Margaret Nikolov, Sujin Song, Ilaria Santangelo, Onisuru Ojegba, Kyle Donohue, Tanner Whitsell, Calvin Haensel, Arnold Milstein, and Cynthia A. Fisher • August 05, 2025
with the text:
Starting in 2020, the University of Colorado Health system (UCHealth), the state's largest nonprofit hospital system, began relying heavily on third-party debt collectors to engineer lawsuits against its own patients. Though UCHealth had consistently brought lawsuits against patients through 2019, UCHealth sharply decreased its own debt collection actions against its patients the following year. At the same time, total debt collection actions brought by CollectionCenter Inc (CCI), a collection agency owned by a revenue cycle management company, more than doubled. A sample of court records indicates that the majority of CCI's actions were brought on behalf of UCHealth.
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