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Hospital Payments

Anonymous — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 00:37:35 GMT

I'm about to call the Hospital and try to work out payments with them, I owe them about 3,000 and would like to see if I could stretch it out over a two year period. Unfortunately I have a feeling the hospital is not going to want to go over a year.

I'm not trying to get out of paying them just trying to fit it in my budget, do I have any recourse or am I basically at their whim?

Rick

Re: Hospital Payments

CreditBob — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 01:23:53 GMT

I have also had medical bills in the past. Through experience the hospital or medical care providers only ask that you contact them from he beginning & arrange a payment arrangement. The worst thing is to put off and delay communication with them. So call them and you may be surprised of the response that you would get from them.

Re: Hospital Payments

Booner72 — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 02:34:48 GMT

I had one hospital bill that said I had 12 months - but I missed a month and they sent me to collections. My bad.

I have one I'm working on now - they gave me 6 months. I took it. Interest free loan - no ding to credit - yay it sucks to pay them 140 a month but it was my bill.

I hope they work with you! Just be sure to make nice with who you talk to in the accounting department to set up the pmt plan. Be sure to get their name and thank them so very much. That way if you have to miss a month due to an emergency down the road, they just might remember you and allow it to slide. But MAKE SURE you call them if that were to happen - as evidenced by my first sentence.

Good Luck!