After the death of her newborn in hospital, an American mother is surprised by her demand to pay 250 thousand dollars

American Brittany Girou Lynn, who lost her newborn Alexandra, 25 days after giving birth, was surprised that she was required to pay an astronomical care bill for the dead girl 6 months after her loss.

Alexandra was born 13 weeks premature, and her very low weight of only two pounds (about 900 grams), and therefore she had to be placed in the neonatal intensive care unit, the New York Times reported.

The child quickly recovered and began to grow normally, astonishing the nurses, but things turned suddenly when she contracted an infection, which caused her death on January 15, 2019, before she completed her first month.

After the shock, the grieving mother began to wake up to the need to pay the medical bills, as she struggled to cover it through insurance, since the premature birth did not go through the usual procedural chain of obtaining the prior consent usual in cases of traditional birth.

But by last summer, Lynn had debt collection notices in which Cigna Health Insurance said the mother had to pay $257,000 that the company had mistakenly charged for the baby's care after the woman changed her insurance companies.

Lynn is surprised and perplexed that Cigna is the one who has paid the late baby's first care bill and has already paid for the hospital, but how she is suddenly asking for the extra money that she personally paid her as a patient.

According to the American newspaper, such bills are a "dispute" between hospitals and major insurance companies, in which the patient is stuck in the middle between them, according to experts who reviewed Lane's case.

Experts also said that, although such cases do not spread, they constitute a major crisis for families, as the value of medical bills in the United States of America cannot be expected, until the patient is surprised by the claim that he receives by mail after months.

The mother said she was very frustrated that she had to fight an extended battle of correspondence and contacts with the company, the hospital and regulators, and also because the hospital made decisions that affect her future and the memory of her child.