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This January, a Texas man was the victim of a violent attack and his jaw broken in two places. He was taken by ambulance to an emergency room in Austin. After checking to see if the hospital was on his insurance network, he followed a nurse's recommendation that he get surgery that night. The bill was $7,924.13.

The victim, Scott Kohan, frequently checked his insurance website and he said, “I saw that everything came up in the network except a bill for the surgery that says it was rejected.”

When Kohan called his insurer, he was told the doctor probably coded the visit incorrectly and the clai...