BILLING AT A CITY HOSPITAL My grandfather was in his eighties when he developed cancer. He had Medicare and Medicaid to cover all of his medical expenses. He was being treated at a local city hospital on an Outpatient and Inpatient basis. However the Hospital kept sending him bills. When he received these bills I would have to make a trip to the Hospital's Billing Ofiice, where they would ask me for his Insurance Cards, and after they verified them, the charges would be dismissed. This was constant problem that seemed to occur every few weeks and continued months after his
death. He passed away on July 17, 1998, after which I still kept receiving bills. I sent them back with a letter stating that he passed away in THEIR HOSPITAL, and enclosed copies of his Insurance cards. I asked them to please fix this error and STOP sending me bills because frankly it was getting annoying. Then I received another bill, as I was looking it over I noticed that they had charges on the bill for procedures performed in September 1998, October 1998, November 1998, and January 1999. I returned this bill to them with yet another
letter and inquired as to HOW they could have performed those last procedures on him months after he had been dead and buried. That must have done it, because I never heard from them again.
