Doe v. HCA Health Services of Tennessee, Inc.

OPINION

in which ADOLPHO A. BIRCH, JANICE M. HOLDER, and WILLIAM M. BARKER, JJ., joined.

We granted this appeal in order to determine whether a hospital’s form contract in which the patient agrees to pay the “charges” not covered by insurance is sufficiently definite to constitute a valid contract. The trial court held that the word “charges” was sufficiently definite because the amount of the charges could be determined by referring to the hospital’s confidential list of prices for all its goods and services; however, the court went on to hold that the hospital’s charges had to be…