Two months ago I had a miscarriage. It was terrible, I ended up in a hospital that was just an ER and then I was transferred to another hospital. When I was in the ER, my information came up with my Maiden name, my parents address and a bunch of other outdated information from over ten years ago (I went to the same er for an injury in high school). As I was going through the worst pain of my life, my husband spent over thirty minutes correcting the admin? Nurse? A woman who was registering me I suppose ? (Forgive me, I was a bit out of it).
A month ago my mother sent me a picture of an envelope, opened, with her name, her address and MY hospital bill information. It was just the icing on the cake that my mother would get the bill. If it had been addressed to me, she would not have opened it, but it was HER name on it.
Then, when I went to get the bill from her it was just a summarized amount. "You owe $2700." . Bam. Nothing listed. The second hospital DID send us our bill, itemized, to my address.
We have contacted the hospital, asking for an itemized bill and also for them to NOT send it to the wrong address. They were very unhelpful, but promised to do so.
Three days ago I got another text from my mom. Yes, you guessed it , the bill was sent to her again. Still not itemized. This time she did not open it.
Past all this privacy violation, we owe nearly 5k now in medical bills. An amount we cannot afford to just up and pay. We have savings, but they are not big enough for this. Is there any guide out there on how to negotiate these bills down?
I am so glad we pay 700 bucks a month for our insurance to pay a measly $300.00 towards our bills. /s
Edit: I am in the US, I didn't even think to mention that.
Submitted November 26, 2018 at 08:35PM by Medicalheadache https://ift.tt/2Kzxq5z
