As a clinician, I thought, ‘Yes.’” She was taken to the operating room in the early evening, then admitted to the hospital overnight. A friend took her home the next day. Then the bills came.

Surgeons have already performed 6,429 surgeries in the operating rooms at Wynn Hospital since it opened at the end of October. But the Mohawk Valley Health System has just launched a new program to ...

This doctor broke her ankle in a car accident. The hospital kept her overnight, but her insurer stopped paying after she left the emergency room.