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My hubby suffered a heart attack in August, 04. We had health insurance but our hospital co-pay is 4 grand. We never received a bill from the hospital. In the winter we lost our heat for 4 days and became sick & a very mean, ignorant young lady from a collection agency phoned us and demanded my husband borrow money from family members to pay the bill, He nearly ended back up in the hospital after the call as she would nnot believe we hadn't received any bills. We went to the hospital directly the following business day and started making weekly 25.00 payments was all we could afford. A clerical worker there helped us by saying the hospital didn't handle the billing anymore and the local office gals lost their jobs to temps. We faithfully took our 25 per week in, until last week she told hubby we had to deal with this agency. Last week a worker called him from the agency and went over our bills and told him we only had to pay 25.00 monthly. Today I got a nasty threatening call from them again wanting 100.00 per week. We can't afford this or the harassment with his heart & my fibromyalgia. They never, ever sent us a bill to begin with. They are very rude and today threatened court and I just hung up after she rudely told me I was being recorded. What can we do to stop the harassment, when they never presented us with a bill in the firsat place. Had they in the beginning we would have started paying immediately, but who has an extra 4 grand sitting in there account anymore. :eek: