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Hospitals Billed Sexual Assault Survivors for Rape Kits. Now They’re Paying the Price.
The cost of rape may be incalculable—but this wasn’t supposed to be part of it.
New York hospitals illegally billed survivors for hundreds of forensic rape examinations, a new investigation by state Attorney General Barbara Underwood finds.