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Bill of the Month: How billing turns a routine birth into a high-cost emergency

By: Rae Ellen Bichell, Kaiser Health News
Date: November 3, 2021
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Summary

Caitlin Wells Salerno knew that some mammals — like the golden-mantled ground squirrels she studies in the Rocky Mountains — invest an insane amount of resources in their young. That didn’t prepare her for the resources the conservation biologist would owe after the birth of her second son. Wells Sa