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Originally Posted by *~April S~*  We do not have many illegal immigrants in this area from what I have been told just many people who dont pay their hospital visits at all and dont try to set up a payment plan. It just screws everybody in that situation as our bills go higher, our insurance gets pickier, and it ruins the other person's credit. |
Living so close to the border we get this all the time- Not only do I work at a hospital, I'm also a nursing student so I basically feel like I live at all the local hospitals. In the past my parent's have actually received hospital bills in the mail for other people- Jose Garcia, Maria Hernandez, and such... they have just listed a random address that happened to be my parent's (who have lived there 20+ years so they aren't for any previous residents). From what I've heard this is fairly common around here. List a fake address and phone number and how can the hospital bill you? It's sad because everyone else pays for it.