Is this Credit Reporting fraud by the hospital, my friend who just became a resident took his daughter ?
Ignacio Garcia asked:
to the hospital and a billing error caused him to get a bill when the baby was covered by healthy families, at that time they did not have social securities issued so they just gave a name and address. The hospital sent a bill with the name mispelled, and my friend told them it was their mistake and wasnt paying, so that was that. He then took his daughter again to the same hospital months later this time they charged the insurance correct and had socials issued so he gave his, now today he got a letter from the Collection Agency Grand and Weber stating that the bill was in collection and could have negative impact on his credit.
to the hospital and a billing error caused him to get a bill when the baby was covered by healthy families, at that time they did not have social securities issued so they just gave a name and address. The hospital sent a bill with the name mispelled, and my friend told them it was their mistake and wasnt paying, so that was that. He then took his daughter again to the same hospital months later this time they charged the insurance correct and had socials issued so he gave his, now today he got a letter from the Collection Agency Grand and Weber stating that the bill was in collection and could have negative impact on his credit.
I see this as fraud because the hospital is taking private information ( social) from one account and applying it to another with a mispelled name and no social.
Is this legal or illegal by the hosptils part, I mean they cant just take a social and apply it to a mispelled name and send it to a collection agency right, it could be 2 different people right?
What recourse doe my friend have?
Retired accountant, my friend tried everything possible to get this straightened out and there was no way for the bill to be covered, the hospital made the mistake of not billing the insurance when it was valid, they actually never did, when they tried it was no longer active, not my friends fault ok.
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