{"id":45428,"date":"2025-10-08T04:59:03","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T04:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/isafespend.com\/?p=45428"},"modified":"2025-10-08T04:59:04","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T04:59:04","slug":"she-had-a-broken-arm-no-insurance-and-a-97000-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/isafespend.com\/?p=45428","title":{"rendered":"She Had a Broken Arm, No Insurance \u2014 and a $97,000 Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><figcaption>Dikushin Dmitry \/ Shutterstock.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As soon as she fell, Deborah Buttgereit knew she couldn\u2019t avoid going to the hospital. \u201cI could hear the bones moving around in my elbow,\u201d said Buttgereit, who was 60 when she slipped on a patch of ice in December outside her apartment in Bozeman, Montana. Emergency room scans showed she had fractured her left arm near the joint. Doctors told her she needed surgery to repair it. 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