My first post on the original Credit Slips was about medical billing and collection; so is this first post on the new Credit Slips. I write to encourage more of you to read Hospitals Suing Patients: The Rise of Stealth Intermediaries, posted this summer on the Social Science Research Network.  This study, by law professor Barak Richman and coauthors at Stanford University’s Clinical Excellence Research Center reports on a hospital’s recent use of collection agencies to sue and enforce judgments (many of which were based on “unsubstantiated and inaccurate billing records”) against patients, and the impact of state law efforts to increase transparency in debt collection. And herein lies the end of my first post on the new Credit Slips, if only to expedite your decision to download this study.