GOP Sen. Roger Marshall Sued More Than 700 Patients Over Medical Bills
The New York Times found Marshall’s practice sued patients over debts as small as $101, with 81 arrests and wage and bank garnishments.
- Sen. Roger Marshall sued more than 700 patients for unpaid medical bills during his career as an obstetrician-gynecologist, resulting in at least 81 arrests for missed court appearances, according to The New York Times analysis of Kansas court records.
- Operating his Great Bend practice for over two decades, Marshall routinely charged 18 percent interest on outstanding balances and garnished patient wages to recover debts as small as $101.
- Court records reveal Marshall's firm requested arrest warrants for patients who missed court dates, including one pregnant woman arrested three times over a $3,600 C-section bill that nearly doubled to $7,000 due to interest.
- Marshall's spokesperson, Payton Fuller, defended the billing practices as "not unusual," stating that "judges issue warrants when people repeatedly miss court dates, not doctors." Court records, however, showed Marshall's lawyers specifically requested arrest warrants dozens of times.
- These revelations emerge as the Kansas Republican faces a tight reelection race against Democratic challenger Adam Hamilton, a pastor, complicating Marshall's campaign narrative as a compassionate physician dedicated to rural health care.
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Kansas Senator Aggressively Sued Patients Over Medical Debt
Roger Marshall's path to the US Senate ran through a small Kansas OB-GYN practice that took an unusually aggressive approach to unpaid medical bills, writings Sarah Kliff in a New York Times deep-dive. As an obstetrician, the man known as "Doc Marshall" or his practice taken more than 700 patients...
(New York = Yonhap News) Correspondent Kim Yeon-sook = When a U.S. federal senator was working as an obstetrician, in order to collect unpaid medical bills, he [targeted] hundreds of patients...
NY Times details Kansas Sen. Roger Marshall’s habit of suing patients over unpaid medical bills
The New York Times on Tuesday published an investigation into the aggressive legal tactics that U.S. Sen. Roger Marshall routinely used to collect on his patients’ medical debts during his decadeslong career as a Kansas OBGYN. A Times analysis of…
The Independent
The Independent (US)GOP senator’s medical practice had 81 people arrested over unpaid bills: report
An analysis of court records found that lawsuits filed by Kansas Republican Senator Roger Marshall or his medical practice routinely assessed an 18 percent interest rate on unpaid balances, causing some bills to double over time
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