What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? Florida
I just received a bill out of the blue for a procedure that occurred almost two-years ago--from the on-call pediatrician that happened to discharged my daughter from the hospital after her birth. The bill is addressed to me, though my daughter is clearly identified as the patient. When my daughter was born, we made sure that all insurance matters for her went through my husband's provider--knowing full well I would be leaving my job, and thus my insurance, after her birth. I've called the hospital to confirm this, and their files all show that her insurance was that of my husband's. Yet here I am being billed two-years later.
Can this be fought on the grounds of a clerical error? Obviously my insurance (who they tried to bill) would have no response, given I never added my daughter to the policy. We also never signed any documents with this particular pediatrician, seeing as they were simply the on-call doctor that the hospital provided. All of our paperwork and insurance information was submitted to the hospital prior to birth, thus the hospital would have been the ones who would have provided this doctor with any information (note: all other bills we processed properly, just this one went wrong).
What can I do?
I just received a bill out of the blue for a procedure that occurred almost two-years ago--from the on-call pediatrician that happened to discharged my daughter from the hospital after her birth. The bill is addressed to me, though my daughter is clearly identified as the patient. When my daughter was born, we made sure that all insurance matters for her went through my husband's provider--knowing full well I would be leaving my job, and thus my insurance, after her birth. I've called the hospital to confirm this, and their files all show that her insurance was that of my husband's. Yet here I am being billed two-years later.
Can this be fought on the grounds of a clerical error? Obviously my insurance (who they tried to bill) would have no response, given I never added my daughter to the policy. We also never signed any documents with this particular pediatrician, seeing as they were simply the on-call doctor that the hospital provided. All of our paperwork and insurance information was submitted to the hospital prior to birth, thus the hospital would have been the ones who would have provided this doctor with any information (note: all other bills we processed properly, just this one went wrong).
What can I do?