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Feds close Missouri charity that promised to pay medical bills
A screenshot of the website for St. Joseph based health-sharing ministry Medical Cost Sharing Inc. taken in 2017. In January, a federal judge ordered the website be shuttered based on sufficient probable cause that the company was engaged in ongoing wire fraud.. Medicalcostsharing.com A Missouri woman’s heart attack cost her $45,000 in medical bills. A Georgia man’s kidney stone treatment carried a $67,000 tab. A California woman was treated for a stroke and got a bill for $125,000. All were depending on St. Joseph, Missouri-based nonprofit Medical Cost Sharing Inc. to pay the bulk of those costs. They were members, some paying monthly premiums upward of $750 per month, of…


