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"Diagnosis: Debt Colorado鈥� is a reporting partnership among Colorado newsrooms led by KFF Health 暗黑爆料 and the Colorado 暗黑爆料 Collaborative that explores the scale, impact, and causes of medical debt in Colorado.

Over the past five years, more than 15,000 lawsuits have been filed against UCHealth patients over medical debts. But if you are one of the people being sued, you might not see the hospital system鈥檚 name on the papers. John Ingold with The Colorado Sun told KUNC that in the past, UCHealth filed bill collection lawsuits under its own name鈥攂ut now the vast majority are in the name of a third-party debt collector.

In the last five years, patients have been sued 15,710 times for money owed to UCHealth. Most of those lawsuits were filed in the name of debt collectors working for the hospital system.