3 ms·
In practice what you describe in the tail end of your post is how it works. Except the hospital can’t blackball you for emergency care even if you have a histor
by a2tech 6y ago
In practice what you describe in the tail end of your post is how it works. Except the hospital can’t blackball you for emergency care even if you have a history of failure to pay.
The hospital will work with you and put you on a payment plan if you don’t just disappear. If you stop communicating they’ll sell your debt to a debt collector which is a bad deal for both you and the hospital. They’d rather have you paying $20/month for ever then sell your debt.
- Ididntdothis 6y agoThat's not how it always works. Sometimes they reduce the price and sometimes they play hardball. You are completely at the mercy of the hospital who charges whatever they feel like. And if you, the insurance or the hospital make a mistake they are happy to send you a 300k bill that you will have the responsibility to clear up over the next few years by constantly calling insurance and dozens of doctors who all somehow got put on your bill.