Patients left unpaid hospital bills in Ireland worth 60 million euros

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DUBLIN, Ireland: New figures show that at the start of last year, patients owed the Health Service Executive (HSE) nearly 60 million euros in hospital bills they had not paid after being discharged. Private health insurance companies also owed 138.4 million euros for treatments carried out in public hospitals. The data shows that hospitals wrote off more than 16.6 million euros in unpaid patient fees as b