How Doctors Are Pushing Medical Credit Cards On Patients

Alana Semuels, Time
Tue, 01/14/2025 - 10:49am

David Zhao signed up for a medical credit card while supine in a dentist’s chair, fluoride trays in his mouth. In December 2018, the consumer lawyer from Los Angeles went for a routine dentist appointment at Western Dental in San Mateo, in the suburbs of Northern California. Zhou was told by the dentist that his gums were receding.

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