Hospital bill

So I just received a hospital bill for my daughter and we owe $500. Went to the hospital in June and it says it’s past due but I never received a call or nothing about it. It also says I’m the responsible party which I don’t understand because my daughter is no longer in an insurance plan with me she’s has insurance with her dad since January 2024. Is there a way I can lower it down maybe get a discount or I heard something about asking for an itemized bill. I know we don’t owe alotttt but Money a little tight right now as we just paid to get our car fixed. Also her dad wants me to get it lowered down and not do any payments plans. Is there anything I can do? If not it’s fine we’ll just do payment plans. Sorry this is my first time and I’m completely lost about this or what to do bc when my daughter was with my insurance I never paid anything we had medicaid. Now she’s in an insurance from her dad’s job.
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call and ask for an itemized receipts; also it’s going to be based off of ur daughter was on an insurance plan during the date of service. I would talk to medicaid

@Kai okay thank you!

Call about the itemized receipt. Also, see if the current insurance is retroactive and if it can cover the cost, or part of it? If not, just negotiate with them. For example. Just call saying you’re ready to pay but you have $300 and if they can settle for that much. I’ve heard when dealing with hospitals directly, this works well

Did they bill medicaid and didn’t know her updated insurance info so it was rejected and they need his insurance info? Or did they not have the proper insurance info at all? Or is $500 his deductible or copay? It should say or you can call and ask. If it’s his deductible then you owe it, but tbh we have never paid one before, can’t afford to pay ridiculous deductible amounts and they can’t collect unless it’s a physicians bill so it has no impact 🤷🏼‍♀️.

If patient Still has Medicaid through one parent and Insurance through the other parent, Medicaid falls as secondary insurance. Most of the times if the primary doesn’t cover the costs Medicaid won’t either. Technically you’re are the responsible party of the bill since you are the mother. But if you are not legally married with the baby’s dad you can apply for financial charity based on your income and they might discount some off or covered it fully. But you must show proof of income etc.

I will usually call because one time it said that we owed around 3 hundred for a blood work and after l called the next day disappeared the bill.

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