Patients at a New York City hospital got billed mistakenly for tens of millions of dollars because of a computer error.
Unemployed doorman Alexis Rodriguez says he almost became ill when he received a $44.8 million bill from the Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center. Rodriguez was hospitalized last spring with pneumonia and was afraid the bill was legitimate. His actual bill stood at $300.
It appeared that that company that prepares the bills had mistakenly put the invoice number in the space where the invoice amount should go. The billing company PHY Services is telling patients to ignore the multimillion-dollar bills. It says it will send out corrected ones.
The hospital didn't immediately respond to requests for comment on Monday, which is a holiday.
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