WhyChat, need your advice

[r2-d2]

My DW received the following letter today:

 

According to our records you owe the MEDICAL UNIVERSITY of S.C. a debt in the amount of 417.90 for hospital services. You are herby notified of MEDICAL UNIVERSITY of S.C. intention to submit or resubmit this debt to the South Carolina Department of Revenue for collections through the Setoff Debt Collection Act until this debt is paid in full. yadayadayada...

 

The Department will utilize the powers granted under Title 12 of the Code unless you file a written notice within thirty (30) days from the date of this notice, with the information below:

 

name

address

ssn

type of dispute; and

a detailed statement of all the reasons you disagree with the debt amount or dispute that you owe the debt

 

Ok, so here is the deal. This bill is from 10/26/07 and my DW had medicaid at this time so this bill should have been covered. EVERY SINGLE one of the other bills were covered, so this one should have been as well. This isn't a CA, it's from the Hospital's accounting department... Can I just send them the required information, along with her medicaid information at the time, or is there dispute letter I should send? TIA.

[Why Chat]

My DW received the following letter today:

 

According to our records you owe the MEDICAL UNIVERSITY of S.C. a debt in the amount of 417.90 for hospital services. You are herby notified of MEDICAL UNIVERSITY of S.C. intention to submit or resubmit this debt to the South Carolina Department of Revenue for collections through the Setoff Debt Collection Act until this debt is paid in full. yadayadayada...

 

The Department will utilize the powers granted under Title 12 of the Code unless you file a written notice within thirty (30) days from the date of this notice, with the information below:

 

name

address

ssn

type of dispute; and

a detailed statement of all the reasons you disagree with the debt amount or dispute that you owe the debt

 

Ok, so here is the deal. This bill is from 10/26/07 and my DW had medicaid at this time so this bill should have been covered. EVERY SINGLE one of the other bills were covered, so this one should have been as well. This isn't a CA, it's from the Hospital's accounting department... Can I just send them the required information, along with her medicaid information at the time, or is there dispute letter I should send? TIA.

Send them the medicaid data and contact the medicaid service and request an address to send copies of the correspondence to them as you believe this may be a case of duplicate billing and medicaid fraud on the part of the hospital. Include the information in your letter to the hospital that you are reporting this as a possible medicaid fraud duplicate collection attempt to the proper authorities.

[r2-d2]

Thanks WhyChat, we'll contact the medicaid office tomorrow morning and let you know how it goes.

Edited November 19, 2009 by r2-d2