A few months after Waynesboro, Virginia, resident Kanise Marshall delivered a baby boy on New Year’s Day 2023, the hospital bills rolled in.
Marshall’s insurance paid Martha Jefferson Hospital more than $24,000, and she set up a payment plan for the remaining balance.
She thought she paid the full amount billed by the Charlottesville, Virginia, hospital until a process server showed up to her home in November 2025 – nearly three years later. Martha Jefferson Hospital, owned by Sentara Health, was suing Marshall for $2,366 in unpaid bills she said she didn’t know existed…