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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.
<BR%20/>Tags: Doe, Credit Reporting, Social Securities, Hospital Billing, Name And Address <BR%20/>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made the mistake of not billing the insurance when it was valid, they actually never did, when they tried it was no longer active, not my friends fault ok.
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he needs a lawyer to solve it, he cannot do it on his own.
This is not fraud; it is a billing error.
Your friend needs to tell the collection agency that the bill is covered by insurance but the hospital billed it incorrectly. He is going to have to put out some effort to get this straightened out.
Just saying, “you made a mistake and I’m not paying it.” is not a mature way of handling this situation. After all, his daughter got the medial attention not just once, but twice. The hospital provided the service, they deserve to be paid for it.
The only recourse your friend has is to do the right thing and try to get this matter straightened out. Otherwise, his credit will be ruined. And, I don’t want my future hospital bills to be higher because your friend acted like a child instead of an adult. He needs to step up and take responsibility.
He should have paid his bill in the first place.