Confirmed zero-balance medical bill resurfaces and goes to collections
A patient confirmed twice with hospital staff that a medical bill had a zero balance and would not go to collections, but was later billed again and contacted by a collections agency that misrepresented itself as the hospital. The consumer was never proactively notified and faced an unnecessarily burdensome fax/mail-only complaint process.
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