@Anonymous wrote:
@Anonymous wrote:
No not knocking it, I'll do whatever our lawyer says is best, he's a nice guy that I've known for years so I know he'll do whats in our best interest.
I was just saying I'm not counting on us getting extra money, it would certainly be nice, I'm just hoping this is resolved without us paying anything to the CA.
Their idea is ridiculous. The concept that you have to pay for almost going to court. SMH .
The doctor's office should have billed the L&I people in the first place and it should have never gone this far.
It would be great if you had this in writing so it could be addressed by your attorney, and I would say 5k is very light.
GL - I'd like to hear how this ends.
I told the CA that, the doctor should have billed L&I from the beginning. They claim my husband never told them it was for an L&I claim. I can't prove he did, and they can't prove he didn't, but regardless, this was a specialist that he could only see with a referal from his general practitioner who knew full and well that it was part of an L&I claim, and the nature of the injuries made it apparent that it was a job site injury... and I just have a hard time believing that he would say it wasn't part of a claim when the claim had already been opened.
But anyway, I just mailed off the letter, my attorney focused on several points, but the one he said will be the most danming and will probably get this thing dropped, is that the doctor not only accepted payment from L&I which voided all collection rights for that debt, but they also accepted payment from my personal insurance which is a double payment.
I feel a little sick, I keep picturing the worst case scenario because if asked why I didn't inform the doctor to bill L&I back when we got the first bill, all I have as my defense is that I was dealing with a lot at the time, things were terrible with my marriage and I told my husband that he needed to deal with it himself, so I honestly never saw a bill, I don't know what he did with the bills if they did come, and he doesn't know either.
On the other hand, I have proof that even when doctors do know that a bill was suppossed to be sent to L&I they still sometimes end up billing private insurance and later sent to a collections company, so this doctor could very well have just tried to back pedal because they had gotten themselves into a hole.
idk, i'm really hoping it just gets dropped.
