For our kids births, it was typical to still have bills trickling in six months later from some company or another, having no idea which part they were really i

For our kids births, it was typical to still have bills trickling in six months later from some company or another, having no idea which part they were really involved in unless we felt like spending three hours on hold to figure it out. And always they're like YOU MUST PAY THIS IMMEDIATELY or be sent to collections even though they take their sweet fucking time getting them to you, and also make it a pain in the ass to question any of it (and some of them are serious, in two cases we had trivial-amount ones slip through the cracks of the 50+ billing and EOB and blah blah blah letters we received, and go to collections right at 30 days, not even a follow-up "hey you may have missed this, you're overdue" letter) I wouldn't be surprised if there are a bunch of scam artists out there sending fraudulent small bills to patients with recent major procedures (guaranteed to have a mountain of confusing bills coming in for months) whose info they got from our massive privatized spy network, and having almost all of them get paid. Like, compared to some other stuff that goes on, that seems like a no-brainer of a scam to run, with likely a very high success rate (am I going to burn potentially half of a day per bill to figure out if one of these fifteen $10-$200 invoices is fraudulent? No, no I am not)