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Girlfriend had that exact same issue with a hospital

Had an allergic reaction (and we don't know what to) during a 1 week period where her health insurance lapsed between jobs. Applied for financial aid and was told everything was fine. Ended up getting a bill of like $500 and paid it off.

Fast forward a few months and the hospital is chasing her up for an extra $500 which was for the doctors time or some shit despite being told everything was fine and taken care of whenever she spoke to their finance people. Even today now like 15 months onwards she gets collections agencies chasing her up even though every time she talks to the hospital they say it was taken care of or they have paperwork issues or something

Worst fucking part is it was for an allergic reaction that had completely gone away by the time the doctor got to see her. He spoke to her for less than 3 minutes and only recommended carrying an EpiPen in case it happened again. So they effectively charged her $1000 with financial aid to sit and wait 2 hours and be told something that was common sense. She even told them when we got there that if they didn't have some sort of financial aid program to take care of it, we didn't want to wait