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ESL / EFL Cloze Activity - Hospital Bills by Sean Banville

Medical bills in the USA are to be quite high, but one patient got the of his life when he received a bill for over $44 million. New Yorker Alex Rodriguez, 28, the Bronx-Lebanon Hospital after suffering a of pneumonia. All he did was see some doctors and get a prescription for drugs to his condition. The total cost of his treatment was $300. When the bill on his doorstep for $44,776,587, Rodriguez said he almost had an asthma . He immediately thought the bill was and panicked. Thoughts went through his of how he was going to find the millions when he was unemployed. He thought the bill was related to three weeks he spent in hospital 9 months earlier.

It out that Mr Rodriguez was not the only patient to be tens of millions of dollars for coughs and colds. A computer in the accounts department of the company that processes the invoices has sent more people the heart-stopping bills. The company admitted that someone put the 8- invoice number in the box for the billed . Mr Rodriguez told journalists from “The Daily News” that he was angry the company’s mistake him so much worry and anguish. He said: “I think they should have somebody look over the bills before they them out…I understand manpower may be , but to send out a lot of bills with that big - someone could have had a heart attack.”