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Old 10-09-2010, 10:48 AM
 
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My daughter had minor surgery in 2008. The surgery center just filed a claim in Sept. 2010 for the procedure. We no longer have the insurance we had then. The insurer said it is past the date to file a claim. Am I obligated to pay this bill?
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Old 10-09-2010, 11:21 AM
 
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When did you lose the insurance? I've never had surgery since getting my own insurance. But why would you need to file it? I thought the insurance handled all the paperwork with the hospital?
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Old 10-09-2010, 01:33 PM
 
Location: Clear Lake, Houston TX
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Read the fine print on your old policy's statute of limitations. You might have to break out a law book, too.
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Old 10-09-2010, 01:53 PM
 
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You can try to negotiate it.
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Old 10-09-2010, 06:36 PM
 
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My daughter had minor surgery in 2008. The surgery center just filed a claim in Sept. 2010 for the procedure. We no longer have the insurance we had then. The insurer said it is past the date to file a claim. Am I obligated to pay this bill?
No, you will more than likely not have to pay the surgery center for the surgery. Call the insurance you used to have and get a letter in writing from them (you will probably get an EOB after they tried processing). The surgery center has to eat the cost, if in fact it is past the time of filing stipulated by the insurance. You did your part in providing them what they needed to collect back in 2008. They usually take a month or so to get all the dictations, coding and billing sent...but not 2 years! I used to work at the hospital and sometimes for one reason or another we had to eat the cost of certain procedures (hospital's mistake at some documentation, etc and therefore not patient's responsibility).
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