After Leaving E.R.

The private hospital records and telephone numbers of accident victims are frequently sold and resold to medical facilities and lawyers. These doctors and lawyers bribe hospital employees to get this information. Typically, after the victim goes home he/she is telephoned repeatedly by different runners trying to solicit them. One particularly sneaky approach runners use is to tell the victim that they work on behalf of the hospital. They may even tell the victim that they noticed something in their hospital records that indicates they need follow up care at the hospital’s “private medical facility”. They then have the victim picked up by their own transportation service and brought to a medical facility. What the victim does not know is that the person who called them is a runner who has no connection to the hospital. The medical facility that they are trying to get the victim to go to has no connection to the hospital. It’s a scam. The runners are paid by the medical facilities and lawyers to solicit and/or trick injured people into coming to them.