Josh Owens’ motorcycle slammed into a race track wall at 100 mph. Then his problems began.

Josh Owens, who stars on Discovery Channel's "Moonshiners” docudrama show, said he is still in pain after his vintage motorcycle blew a tire and smacked a wall at a Florida race track on March 16.

Owens, who is 40 and from North Carolina, said that because he lacked health insurance, a hospital in Daytona Beach discharged him too soon after the terrifying wreck.

"I was denied care because of health insurance," the motorbike champion told the Observer this week. "Ain't no two ways about it."

Officials at Halifax Health Medical Center denied the accusation, saying the hospital never discharges patients based on ability to pay, The Daytona Beach News-Journal reported last week.

Owens was hospitalized with numerous injuries after the tire blew on his 1919 Harley Davidson during a practice run at New Smyrna Speedway, about 14 miles south of Daytona Beach. He was preparing for an exhibition race of vintage motorcycles the next day.

Owens said the wreck punctured a lung, tore a rotator cuff and broke his left collar bone, shoulder blade and all but one of his ribs. The skin on one of his fingers was stripped to the bone, he said, and his collarbone continues to stick out.

His left side "is pretty well paralyzed," he said, and he still suffers from severe pain.

Owens said the nursing care he received over his five days at Halifax Health Medical Center was superb. He was so grateful that he had pizza delivered to them. "I was loving on everybody," he said. "The nurses were all real sweet on my floor."

He was still suffering severe health problems, he said, when a hospital worker asked him bedside about his insurance. He told the worker he has no insurance. "Send me a bill, and I'll pay it," he said he told the worker.

The hospital soon stopped giving him medicine for nausea, he said, removed his Dilaudid IV and switched him to a pill. Less than a day later, the hospital discharged him, Owens said, even though he was still battling such problems as painful blisters in his throat. "I couldn't even swallow my own spit," he said.

How long a patient stays in the hospital depends on various factors, including the person's injuries and age, hospital officials told the News-Journal. "It's all based on the total picture of the patient," the spokeswoman said.

Owens said he felt like "I'd been hit by a freight train" after the wreck, which happened during the 78th Daytona Bike Week.

“I've had the most excruciating pain you could shake a stick at," he said Tuesday night. "I can't lean my head back without passing out."

Owens said he has been staying with friends in Daytona Beach. He can't afford an expensive repair to his truck to return home to Columbus, a town in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, southeast of Asheville, he said.

Injuries and all, he intends to appear on the upcoming eighth season of "Moonshiners," he said. "There's no way for this man not to go to work without being injured," Owens said.

He said he will use proceeds from the sale of merchandise on his Instagram and Facebook pages to help pay his medical bills.

On Tuesday night, Owens also went on Facebook to thank fans and bikers for their support.

"As soon as he can put his leg over a bike he is back at it ," Owens wrote. "He is back shining as well , recovering at the beach."

This story was originally published April 6, 2018 at 12:20 PM with the headline "Josh Owens’ motorcycle slammed into a race track wall at 100 mph. Then his problems began.."