A Medicaid Patient Had a Heart Attack While Traveling. He Owed Almost $78,000.

On Christmas Day at the WaTiki indoor water park, Hans Wirt was getting winded from following his son up the stairs to the waterslides. Wirt thought the cause might have been the altitude change between his home in Deltona, Florida— 33 feet above sea level— and Rapid City, at the edge of the Black Hills. Medics stabilized Wirt before taking him to Monument Health— the…