I was paying the hospital montly, grant it small amounts and now I have a bill collector calling me?
2007-07-12 02:19:35 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Business & Finance ➔ Personal Finance
AS long as you are paying on it and it's medical, all they can do is try and get you to pay more and faster.
Pay what you can; let the finance office know you are being dunned.
2007-07-12 02:23:10 · answer #1 · answered by wizjp 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The creditor has to agree to the payments you are making and you have to have an agreement that if you pay x amount monthly they won't send you to collections. It is not any longer true that if you pay anything they can't send you to collections. On the plus side they collections company will probably be more likely to work with you on the payments. Just make sure that the payments you have been making have counted towards the bill and that is all you are being charged for from the collections agency.
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2007-07-12 02:24:42 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you call and arrange a payment plan with their finance office then the bill collectors will stop harassing you.
I've done that before, and since they don't know your plan to pay if out they send it out to a collection agency.
I would contact the place and arrange with them and tell them what you've been paying.
2007-07-12 02:29:16 · answer #3 · answered by chickadee_ajm 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You owe the bill. Did the Hospital agree to taking a cergtain "small" amount or did you just arbitrarily decide to send them a "small" amount?
If they didn't agree to it, the YOU OWE IT... and probably the ENTIRE AMOUNT PLUS LATE CHARGES.
2007-07-12 02:28:26 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, there's no limit. What made you think that there was a limit?
2007-07-12 02:24:06 · answer #5 · answered by hottotrot1_usa 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋