You would think it would quiet down during the week nights

Lol. Probably why my x-ray alone was $450! I will be battling this till the end thank you for your help. I advise everybody to fight and evaluate the crap out of these.

It is how it should be. It’s not like I ran up my credit card traveling. I went into the ER because I had lost consciousness, was in the er for 6 hours and now I owe over $2500.

I don’t know how that doesn’t sound like health system is profit driven non-profit or not. Maybe a medical executive doesn’t need to make 300k a year.

How true is this? I am not able to find much research to back this up.

I think the designated record set sums up everything you said. Thanks for providing that link.

Please don’t take this as me arguing just curious here. Minimum necessary requirements…. Ok… like? Encounter date? A revenue code to me sounds like it’s privacy.

Also how could we also confirm this is specific to guarantor billing

No but I do believe there is enough people willing to pay after getting called every single damn day, to keep an industry alive. I really do. While if you fight it long enough it’ll work in your favor.

Like sleuth said we need to advocate for ourselves in this “very messed up healthcare.”

This is why I came here for this. You have an excellent way of thinking.

Should I specifically email the hospital to confirm it is written off? I do know in some instances a health care system will pay a cost to collect - right? Like they give up with a guarantor after a year (still want the revenue) but basically pay a collection agency to then call for the money everyday?

Thank you. You provided the answer by asking for proof of debt.

He threw an encounter date at me - would I then just act like it wasn’t me?

I am not going to lie that sounds like one of the smartest processes I have ever heard. One issue - would you actually risk letting (let’s just say) a $2,500 bill report? You don’t think they’ll have any tactics for that?

Because logically that actually sounds incredibly slick. As people have mentioned though, if they own they debt how couldn’t they prove I owe it?