A Los Gatos mother is raising the alarm about Good Samaritan Hospital billings after receiving a nearly $30,000 invoice following her son’s short hospital visit.
Christine Sterpetti, 59, says she and her husband brought her son (who was in 8th grade at the time) to the emergency room to get checked out after he fell off his bike and landed on his tailbone near Union Middle School, Oct. 2, 2023.
“He wasn’t in a wheelchair. He wasn’t having to be assisted into the hospital,” Sterpetti told the newspaper in a telephone interview. “It was just a precautionary visit. It wasn’t like he was scraped-up or anything like that.”…