The Minnesota attorney general is suing a Lakeville chiropractor for fraudulently pushing high-cost credit cards onto patients and pre-billing them for thousands of dollars worth of treatments.
While the credit cards help doctors get paid for expensive medical procedures, they leave patients with huge debts and monthly interest rates that can balloon as high as 30 percent.
The way the Express Health chiropractic clinic promoted these cards was “especially egregious,” Attorney General Lori Swanson said in a press conference Wednesday. In some instances, the clinic obtained cards without the consent of patients and then placed thousands of dollars of charges on them. In others, the clinic inflated the income figures of low-patients to get them qualified.
“This is the health care version of subprime predatory mortgage lending,” Swanson said.
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