Maxwell Kruzic believed his ordeal was finally over when doctors ruled out appendicitis and discharged him from the emergency room in Durango, Colorado. The 37-year-old had arrived doubled over in agony, gripped by what he later described as the 'worst stomach pain of his life.'
What he could not have imagined was that the nightmare would resurface nearly two years later, not as pain, but as a sudden four-figure medical bill landing in his inbox long after he thought the case was closed.
