Update to ER Bill without being seen....

Luckie519

I posted a few weeks ago about going to a local ER and sitting in the waiting room for 7 hours.  I was called back for a few minutes and they took my vitals, but was never seen by a doctor, I left around 1 am.  I ended up getting a bill for $400.

After calling insurance and telling them what was going on, they still decided to pay $240 towards the bill.  I called the hospital about the $160 balance.  They offered to give me a 20% discount towards the bill, which brought me down to $128 balance and they were not willing to work with me any further.  I asked to break the payment into two payments and the lady was very rude.

I ended up calling the head of customer service and she put a hold on the account, while she investigated it.  She called me back today and said they were writing off the balance and I was not going to have to pay any money.  So, it worked out.. thankfully!

mben1119

That's awesome. I'm glad you were persistent.

Luckie519

mabenner1:

That's awesome. I'm glad you were persistent.

Me too.  I was so close to just putting the $128 on a credit card to just get it over with, because I didn't want it to effect my credit.  I am glad I called the lady.  She was very nice and the ONLY person who agreed with me that the charges were outrageous.  Everyone else I talked to was always so shocked that I was complaining about the charges.  

LovesMM

Nice!

klondikebar

That's good it worked out. You do have to be persistent. I got a collection notice for a medical bill once. I never received the original bill, it was for a service performed less than 30 days prior and it should have been covered 100% through our insurance. I had to go through 3 people before they fixed it.

SoDoMojo

That's great that you don't have to pay! Still super sucky you even had to deal with that BS to begin with. 

LnR70707

That is great...glad it worked out.

lrn327

Yay, glad you were persistent!

Kitiara5512

That's good to hear!

Smootchy

Good work!!

RayRay007

Luckie519:

mabenner1:

That's awesome. I'm glad you were persistent.

Me too.  I was so close to just putting the $128 on a credit card to just get it over with, because I didn't want it to effect my credit.  I am glad I called the lady.  She was very nice and the ONLY person who agreed with me that the charges were outrageous.  Everyone else I talked to was always so shocked that I was complaining about the charges.  

I don't know. I've been biting my tongue over all of your posts about this. If you can't afford $128, why did you go to the ER if you weren't that ill that you didn't even stay? I'm not shocked that a hospital in the US would charge an ridiculous amount for you to sit there and not get seen by a doctor. Are you? Of course you're pissed that it happened, but is it really that shocking?

This is like people getting a parking ticket and trying to get out of it when they know full well they parked there and didn't plug the meter.

Maybe I should save this for UO or FFFC.