Any experience with emergency room billing?

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last year when i had a job and insurance i was baker acted into an emergency room. i was so schizophrenic that i didnt even tell them my insurance, and i told them to take off my parents name from my emergency contact information out of paranoia.

i now have no insurance, but just got a collections call for 9000 dollar emergency room visit. i gave the collector my previous insurance and she took down the information.

whats likely to happen in this case? technically i had insurance at the time, but failed to use it because of my illness and fear of people tracking me

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your insurance should cover it if you can show proof for the duration of the visit. i’ve been put in (we call it a 5150 for 72 hour or a 5250 when they extend the hold to two weeks here) on the same sort of situation and refused to give my name, etc, and once identified (which usually takes a day or two) they transfer me out of SF general and start billing my insurance. i think it should work the same way provided you can show proof, which it sounds like you did.

good luck with it.

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