A certain number of these surprise bills are fraudulent as well. I had to go to the ER during the middle of the night. Saw the doctor for 10 mins total. A few

A certain number of these surprise bills are fraudulent as well. I had to go to the ER during the middle of the night. Saw the doctor for 10 mins total. A few months later, I got a bill from the physician on duty saying they were out of network; it was for a shade under $1000. I called the insurance company, and they said, the hospital had a history of sending fraudulent bills, that they had already paid the physician AND previously had sued the hospital for sending these fraudulent bills and obtained a legal settlement enjoining them from doing it. In another incident, my wife's OBGYN kept sending us small bills, $29, $74, etc. even though we have paid our co-pays. I called them up and asked what the bills were for, and they honestly couldn't tell me-- saying they would call us back. Which they never did. Which I assume meant, "you caught us lying."