Avila says some bills list Yovanni under the name of 46-year-old Clarisa Figueroa, who is accused of killing the boy and his mother and claiming him as her child
‘We don’t have the medical records and my client is getting bills for hundreds of thousands of dollars from the hospital that has the Figueroa name on it and that’s atrocious,’ Avila said.
Killer bill: Some bills list Yovanni under the name of 46-year-old Clarisa Figueroa [photo], who has been charged with killing the baby Yovanni and his mother – and claiming the infant as her child
Some of the bills are dated in the time that Figueroa was claiming to be the boy’s mother. Yovanni’s family wasn’t aware that he had been born.
One bill is dated June 3, two weeks after Figueroa was charged with the death of the two. Yovanny died of anoxic encephalopathy on June 14, according to an autopsy.
‘Which is when the brain tissue is deprived of oxygen,’ said Assistant State’s Attorney James Murphy. The hospital said in a statement at least one bill was inadvertently sent in error.
It didn’t specify how the family was being billed and cited patient privacy in declining further comment.
‘We have had discussions with the family regarding a bill that was inadvertently sent and we regret this error,’ the hospital said in a statement. ‘We take our obligation to patient privacy seriously, and therefore are unable to comment further regarding care, services or billing.’
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