HEY YOU please help.?!


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HEY YOU please help.?

OK let me start out by sayin:ONLY SERIOUS ANSWERS PLEASE.
Here's the thing, i went to the ER a couple of times because I was sick. I then applied for charity care and i was approved 100%. Then i received the bills from the hospital, i received two types of bills, one from the hospital and one from the doctors.
The charity care covered all the hospital bills, but when i called for the doctor's bills they told me they do not accept charity care. I was surprised because if I cant pay the hospital it is obvious that i cant pay the doctors either.
Please let me know if anyone else had this problem before and what did you guys do to solve this?

thank you!


Answers:

It happened to me, where I was in the hospital for 5 days with no insurance. I was able to get state medi-cal on an emergency basis which paid for the hospital bill. The doctor that saw me did not accept the medi-cal, however, it is his responsibility to check on the patient's insurance status and decide to accept you or not as his patient. Since you were in the hospital at the time, the doctor's have no choice but to accept the charity care because that is all you had. It's on them. The doctor that treated me, even told me in his office on the follow up visit that he did not know I had medi-cal and that he could not treat me anymore. He grumbled and complained that "he lost money" on me because of my medi-cal status. Oh, well, he should have checked. If I were you, I would write a nice letter to the doctor's billing office explaining the situation and ask why they decided to treat you if that was the only insurance you had at the time? Give them the information they need to bill charity care and see what happens. Be nice but persistent that you don't have the funds to pay their bill.




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