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Medical debt is a fact of life for millions of people in the U.S., and when patients receive a medical bill that they can’t or don’t pay, some hospitals will take them to court. A new study outlines the extent of this practice in North Carolina.

Charlotte area hospitals make a profit on patient care, according to an online calculator from the National Academy for State Health Policy.

In 2021, Americans will spend more than $ 4 trillion on health care, and the federal government expects that number to rise even more in the coming years. Costs are growing faster than the economy, and employers and people with commercial insurance coverage are covering a big portion of those bills. In Part 4 of WFAE's series The Price We Pay, reporter Dana Miller Ervin explores why, starting with rising hospital costs.

Leaders with the Charlotte area’s three largest hospital systems say their facilities are facing staff shortages and a strain on resources amid the surge in COVID-19 patients caused by the highly contagious delta variant and a low vaccination rate.

CaroMont Health on Tuesday marked the start of construction on a new hospital and medical campus in Belmont. The hospital, which was first proposed in 2019, will be CaroMont’s second in Gaston County and is scheduled to open in 2023.

CaroMont Health announced plans Friday for its second hospital in Gaston County, near Belmont Abbey College. CaroMont is a regional nonprofit health care…

“Cheat Death” may have a short life as a hospital slogan, at least at CaroMont Health in Gastonia.The nonprofit company that operates Gastonia’s hospital…