ASHVILLE, Tenn. — Sitting at her dining room table, 61-year-old Amarjit Deol sorts through a mountain of bills and medical records, all the result of her bout with fungal meningitis.
Released from the hospital in January, Deol is weak and can walk only with the aid of a walker.
"My legs won't hold me," she says.
Amid the bills is a notice that Medicare will not pay for an MRI that her doctors say is needed to determine whether she has a lingering spinal infection at the site where she was injected in the fall with a fungus-tainted steroid. The notice says she has exceeded a limit on those services.
The bills include her copay charges on dozens of prescription drugs and a notice from Medicare that it has processed hospital and doctor bills totaling more than $66,000 with $62,875 going to St. Thomas Hospital, where she was a patient for about seven weeks. Still other bills went to her private insurance company.
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