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<blockquote data-quote="Tiredof33" data-source="post: 702069" data-attributes="member: 13558"><p>We also screen our calls.</p><p></p><p>About six months ago we received an itemized bill from a hospital out of state. We called the hospital and were told they could not give out much info due to privacy issues, but we were listed as responsible for the bill. We finally found out who the patient was from other relatives, called them for an explanation, we were told it was an error on the hospital billing dept. Yeah, I don't think so, nice try, lol. The person having the surgery makes more a year than we do combined. The hospital had to be given our address, phone number, etc, they didn't just dream it up.</p><p></p><p>About three weeks ago we started receiving phone calls at 6AM, all day long, stopped at midnight. We wrote the number down and researched it. It's a collection agency. After a week of never ending calls all day and late into the night we blocked the number. Trying to talk to them with explanations of we are not responsible for this individual's unpaid bills didn't work.</p><p></p><p>It is very annoying that someone can list you as a contact without your permission and suddenly a collection agency tries to squeeze you for the money when the person doesn't pay. This individual also makes more a year than we do lol!</p><p></p><p>The only thing that made me feel better about the situations, they were not my child's drama for a change lol!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tiredof33, post: 702069, member: 13558"] We also screen our calls. About six months ago we received an itemized bill from a hospital out of state. We called the hospital and were told they could not give out much info due to privacy issues, but we were listed as responsible for the bill. We finally found out who the patient was from other relatives, called them for an explanation, we were told it was an error on the hospital billing dept. Yeah, I don't think so, nice try, lol. The person having the surgery makes more a year than we do combined. The hospital had to be given our address, phone number, etc, they didn't just dream it up. About three weeks ago we started receiving phone calls at 6AM, all day long, stopped at midnight. We wrote the number down and researched it. It's a collection agency. After a week of never ending calls all day and late into the night we blocked the number. Trying to talk to them with explanations of we are not responsible for this individual's unpaid bills didn't work. It is very annoying that someone can list you as a contact without your permission and suddenly a collection agency tries to squeeze you for the money when the person doesn't pay. This individual also makes more a year than we do lol! The only thing that made me feel better about the situations, they were not my child's drama for a change lol! [/QUOTE]
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