If we paid all our medical bills per month at $100, which is what they want us to do because we can't pay all in full it would add up to over $900 per month. That doesn't include our living expenses and other regular bills. We want to send them what we can which is $10 a month on each one until some of them are paid and then we can slowly increase what we are paying. We live in the state of georgia. The main hospital won't work with us and said they will only accept $100 per month. The magistrate said the hospitals didn't have to accept what we paid unless it was what they wanted and even if we were paying 10-$20. per month they could still turn it over for collection or garnish my husbands wages. we want to pay, but my husband hours at work have been cut to 32 and they've already laid some of them off. I am on total disability and only get one check per month for $563. Does anyone know about the laws in Georgia and if hospitals can refuse your payment if it's not what they want?
2007-10-19 05:59:40 · 4 answers · asked by Beth 2 in Business & Finance ➔ Credit
If you send small payments, they will take them but that will not stop the hospital from turning you to collections or bringing suit. Hospitals typically will only carry outstanding bills for 3 months before turning it over to collections.
Do you have hospital bills for different occassions? Is the hospital treating them as separate bills or have they lumped them together on one account? If it goes to collections, you might be able to get all the hospital bills as one which would make it easier for you.
2007-10-19 06:14:51 · answer #1 · answered by bdancer222 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Try to get some free legal counsel. I have lived in two states. In both, medical bills were not like other debts. You could pay $5.00 a month as long as you showed an effort to repay. Sorry that neither state was Georgia. If you move the laws of your new state would apply to you and Georgia be d*mned.
2007-10-19 06:05:26 · answer #2 · answered by Ellen L 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
sounds like you are already in collections because hospitals
usually work with payments. You might to CONSULT with a Consumer Law Attorney, because even though creditors try and garnish your wages, or threaten judgements, doesn't mean they are allowed to. Sometimes, people are just judgement. Make sure you don't give out your banking
information and your employer has to notify you if they
get a wage garnishment.
2007-10-19 07:36:34 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Try calling legal aid. I doubt anyone on here can give you a legal answer.
2007-10-19 06:07:37 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋