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

[avebury]

42. Here is a thought -

while you wait for the hospital to get its act together, start paying whatever credible invoices/bills that you have received (i.e pay everybody else besides the medical bills). Then if there is anything left over make payments as best as you can. If there is not enough funds at that point to pay all the medical bills, well that is the hospitals tough luck. If all other bills are paid first, you have taken care of entities that have established good business practices and there is less money that can potentially be scammed by the hospital. You could take it Department by Department and force them to provide the details behind their billing. Make them prove to you what is owed by your mother's estate.

Big caution - Please make sure that you don't give the Hospital or anybody acting as their agent, any indication that you are personally liable for any of the debt or they will become your permanent worst nightmare. You might want to consider getting an expensive pre-paid phone like a Virgin Atlantic at Target, just add 200 minutes on it each month and give that phone number only to any entity acting on behalf of your mother's medical bills. This could keep any calls off of your personal home phone and cell phone. When the time comes you can dump the phone and hopefully they won't have any way to make harassing phone calls to you.