Lawsuit claims Emory lost part of man's skull, then charged him $19K to replace it

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Lawsuit claims Emory lost part of man’s skull, then charged him $19K to replace it

JASON KANDEL
Aug 17th, 2024, 4:28 pm



Fernando Cluster (Hornsby Law Group)

A hospital lost a part of a Georgia man’s skull and charged him $19,000 for a synthetic skull replacement piece that had to be removed after it became infected, a lawsuit by the patient alleges.

Fernando Cluster, 62, was having surgery for a brain bleed and had to have part of his skull removed last year at Emory University Hospital Midtown in Atlanta. The hospital misplaced a small section of his skull during the procedure and later billed him for it even though it had to be replaced because it became infected, the lawsuit said.

“It is shocking that a medical provider like Emory would lose part of one of its patient’s skulls and then refuse to accept responsibility,” said the patient and his wife in a statement emailed to Law&Crime on Saturday by their attorney, Chloe Dallaire, of the Hornsby Law Group.

“We now have to live with the consequences of Emory’s negligence, including daily fear about another infection in my head and medical costs,” the statement went on. “We want to know if this has happened to other patients to see if they have been given an explanation by Emory. Our goal is to make sure this never happens to another patient again.”

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[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

1. big mistake

[Wonder Why]

2. Emory has no heart ♥ as they head 👩‍🦲 into court. Where are their brains 🧠?

[GiqueCee]

3. Was Emory one of the many hospitals...

... taken over by private equity? If so, there's your answer. Private equity firms have taken the Mafia's business model and pumped it full of steroids. They are a virulent, metastatic cancer that has no right to exist, and the magnitude of their evil can only be measured in astronomical terms.
Their bottomless greed is behind the housing crisis, skyrocketing healthcare costs, and every other form of predatory price-gouging you can imagine.
They are soulless sociopaths devoid of even the slightest trace of common human decency.

[Phentex]

4. I've given up on Emory completely...

they are one of the few systems that take my insurance but I have gotten terrible results and a nightmare of billing to ever deal with them again! They are shameless.

My ONE knee doctor was good and I had no billing issues ONCE.