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The bewildering ordeal of getting billed for a coronavirus vaccine

Raising three kids, Heather Christena Schmidt has learned a lot about emergency rooms. “Kids are always, you know, getting into stuff,” she says. So when the first puzzling bill arrived, she knew it wouldn’t be the last. Still, Schmidt, a 39-year-old stay-at-home parent and blogger, felt especially angry over this one.Subscribe to The Post Most newsletter for the most important and interesting stories from The Washington Post. Schmidt’s 13-year-old daughter, Ava, got her second dose of the Moder