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Maybe they're hoping for some coverage from the malpractice insurers?

Not that I think that'll get very far, perhaps another lawsuit or 5 to try to force them, but if they don't bill the guy they wouldn't have a claim against them to begin with, I'd suspect.

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While some of the procedures may fall under malpractice (multiple enemas, surgical sedation without consent), they're definitely violations of the AMA's professional conduct and ethics oaths.

In re the billing, it's probably an automatic thing from the hospital itself, rather than the physicians.

Attorneys had to be falling over each other trying to get to this client.

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