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.

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.