I Went To The Accts Payable Dept Of The Hospital Yesterday To Pay My Mom's Bill's And Found This....

[Frustratedlady]

5. If she had Medicare and a supplemental,

she probably won't owe much of anything. Let them filter thru the process. It will take a while.

Years ago, when my mother-in-law died, we went to the accounting office to make sure her bills were all paid. There were no bills, but they had sent a "This is not a bill" notice that she had received an injection costing $900. We asked what that injection was for and they refused to tell us, as it was private information. My husband was executor. They still wouldn't tell us, but she suggested we call her dr., which I did. He said the only thing he could think of that would cost that much was for snake bite, and he certainly didn't give her one of those.

On further research, that was when we discovered the hospital was charging her insurance to cover indigent bills. That was back in 1978. The more things change, the more they stay the same.