Re:HHS announces rule to protect consumers from surprise med...
by prirun on Friday July 02, 2021 @05:25PM
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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.
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.