Move........................
Double whammy.
It wouldn’t be as much of an issue if medical costs weren’t 10x what they should be.
When spouse is not expected to survive advanced cancer, may be a uncontested divorce followed by transferring all assets to the healthy spouse will help eliminate this problem.
This guy acts like this is a total surprise. Community property, filing taxes jointly, homestead exemptions. Being shocked - SHOCKED - isn’t going to work.
I’m torn on this. Services were rendered and the recipient is on the hook for them. I’ve been in the medical field and revenue goes to pay largely for employees and their benefits, including insurance.
What I don’t like is doctors not explaining this in advance.
Bills should be barred if they are not submitted in a timely matter so insurance will pay them.
Estoppel?
Who should eat the bill?
If it’s not Keith then the cost is recouped from everyone else that visits the hospital. I don’t get why people think the burden of their healthcare is everyone else’s burden to bear for them.
Most large health care organizations make sure insurers will pay them.
My wife’s insurance is Tricare that she gets because I’m retired military and the sponsor. So I expect to be responsible for her medical bills and pay them.
If they were illegals, it would cost them nothing. If they were life-time welfare collectors, it would have cost them nothing.
Illegals and welfare collectors have better healthcare coverage than most of us. They don’t get denied service.
Up until Covid misdiagnoses was the number 4 killer. However with Covid those numbers are much higher many were out and out murder for higher.
pay the bills and be done with it.
don’t let the last memory of your wife be that of a deadbeat.
“More and more states agree. At one point, what is on Utah’s books was the law of the land, but in recent years, 10 states have repealed the law, allowing surviving spouses to be sued personally for unpaid medical debt. A hospital or doctor could go after the estate, but if the estate has nothing, then the hospital cannot collect for the person who didn’t incur the debt, Iuliano said.”
Seems like hospitals and doctors in those states would have to cut off people who have no means of paying for services they’d like to receive. Unless of course they are bailed out by the public via socialism.
“This bill came to me in forms of a lawsuit,” Keith said. “By the time this goes all through court, they’re talking to over $3,000.”
A couple years ago my Great Aunt had to be put in a Nursing Home, her son was long haul truck driver and was often on the road, so I agreed to help him out. Went to the nursing facility, they pulled me into a room and started shoving papers in front of him and telling me I had to sign them. I kept telling them I was only helping her son and his name should be on them, but they were very insistent. Finally, I just grabbed the papers and told them I would need to read them over and I would bring them back tomorrow. They weren't happy with that but finally let me leave. Good thing I did read them over! I was basically signing a document saying I would agree to be financially responsible for ALL her medical debts and nursing expenses going forward that weren't covered by Medicare or Insurance. And they literally tried shoving it in front of me and telling me it was "standard paperwork" and demanded I sign before I had a clue what I was signing.
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The law in Florida is otherwise.
When my wife died in 2019 of a stroke, the hospital sent me a bill for over $20,000. I called them and explained that we were legally separated, she had filed for divorce, and I would not be paying the bill.
I also did that with her student loans she neglected to pay for 20+ years.
I never paid either, and never received another bill or phone call.