Just found out I'm being sued for medical debt that was supposed to be covered by medicaid.

[hdestiny95]

I was in a car accident in August of last year and was found at majority fault. I called the hospital to have my bills processed through my medical insurance (medicaid Iowa) once the car insurance had been settled. I'm now getting harassed by debt collectors for the amounts owed and yesterday they tried to have me served at my mother's address ( which I have not lived at in almost 5 years). Medicaid was supposed to cover all my bills, but I found out they were still showing that I had a primary carrier through my dad which I hadn't been covered under in again almost 5 years. I have since started the process to have that information removed from my medicaid account in order to get these bills covered. As far as the lawsuit goes, should I contact the law firm/acquisitions company and explain that the bill will be covered by the insurance or is it too late since they have already filed a lawsuit? If its too late, will the fact that medicaid will be covering the bill win my case?

Any help is greatly appreciated! Thank you in advance!

 

[justwhy]

..not a lawyer or anything but your story is interesting..hoping you can share it here if there's any decisions

 

[quincy]

It is too bad this thread was overlooked when it first posted last month. I hope hdestiny responded in a timely fashion to any summons/complaint s/he received.

 

[Taxing Matters]

As far as the lawsuit goes, should I contact the law firm/acquisitions company and explain that the bill will be covered by the insurance or is it too late since they have already filed a lawsuit? If its too late, will the fact that medicaid will be covering the bill win my case?

You need to file an answer to the lawsuit once you are properly served, if you've not done that already. You can call the plaintiff to tell you think Medicaid will pay it, but I doubt that they'll hold off on the lawsuit for that. Even if you are right that Medicaid will cover it, that's not a defense to the lawsuit. But if Medicaid pays the bills, then that money will of course reduce or eliminate what you owe once the creditors get it.

 

[quincy]

hdestiny was last seen on this forum on June 22.

New member "justwhy" discovered this older, unanswered thread and decided for some reason to respond. I am not sure that hdestiny will be returning to read any responses.

 

[PayrollHRGuy]

Let's see if we can get him /her.

@hdestiny95

That might send an email.

 

[Just Blue]

Let's see if we can get him /her.

@hdestiny95

That might send an email.

I doubt it...but I sent a p.m. and that will likely send an e-mail.

 

[quincy]

hdestiny will need to reply with a state name if/when s/he returns.