Ok I visited the ER back in November last year for a broke finger. While I was checking in I tried to give the nurse my insurance card but she said that it's already on file so business went about as usual. I had received a bill in the mail from my insurance for 100$ later on so I assumed it was for that visit and paid it without thinking. My mail has been sent to my parents house the past six months and sometimes they would hold my mail without realizing before telling me or dropping it off, coupled with that wait time and the fact that I didn't open these certain envelopes because I thought they were from a physician's group I stopped going to 8 months ago and they were trying to get me to sign up for some program they had been pushing for a while (just a website to signup to view your chart) so I didn't open mail from them. Well all those were notifications of my bill and for some reason the ER I went to was part of this group and I never realized it. Anyway now I'm past the 30 days they give you to challenge th debt before giving it to a collection agency. I know I messed up but this hospital screwed up. And what I dont get is that I didn't even have a copayment when checking in so idk how this happened. Should I attempt to contact the hospital or is that a lost cause now? I'm not sure what to do.
Submitted April 18, 2019 at 07:14AM by Butterbean2323 http://bit.ly/2ZmgypJ
