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Re:HHS announces rule to protect consumers from surprise med... by FireBeyond on Friday July 02, 2021 @04:14PM (#27716312)
No, they're not. But hospitals, many times, will absolutely imply that they are when a parent dies in hospital.

And if they do that well enough to have you make a payment, most legal systems will consider that acceptance of full financial responsibility on your part.

Re:HHS announces rule to protect consumers from surprise med... by prirun on Friday July 02, 2021 @05:25PM (#27717091)
My Mom died in 2014, in a local hospital. Several years after her death, I received a bill from that same hospital, addressed to her but sent to my address, for $9K. The kicker is, the "service date" on the bill was 1996! I ignored it since a) she had died; b) she had died in their hospital, so they obviously knew; c) her estate had settled years ago; d) she never received this bill while she was alive.

Hospital billing practice are pretty horrible. If a more compliant person had received this bill, they might have paid it, even though there is no way it was legit.