Section 15 As to Reasonable Value

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Missouri courts have on numerous occasions accepted evidence that medical and hospital expenses were submitted for payment and paid by a claimant as some substantial evidence of their reasonable value. See Wright v. Fox-Stanley Photo Prods., Inc., 639 S.W.2d 407, 410 (Mo. App. E.D. 1982); Hay v. Ham, 364 S.W.2d 118 (Mo. App. W.D. 1962). In Myers v. Karchmer, 313 S.W.2d 697, 707 (Mo. 1958), the Court noted that, while there was no direct testimony that the charges for medical care and attendance were reasonable, evidence of the presentation of the bills and their payment by the claimant’s guardian was accepted as some evidence that the...