Legal Question in Credit and Debt Law in Florida

Hospital is billing me when I have already paid in full

I owed money to a local hospital, and it went into collections while I was unemployed and unable to pay. In March 2004, I had the hospital's billing department research what exactly I owed, and I paid that amount. I have a letter from the hospital stating that my account (and that on my family members) was paid in full. I checked my credit report on 5/26 and found out there is still $1000 owed from a seperate account from two years ago, which I did not know existed. I called the hospital about it, and they told me I had to pay it, even though they had mistakenly created a second account and did not include it in the original amount. I have already paid the hospital $3000, originally, and now they want another $1000. Should I pay it, or should the hospital eat it because the error was due to their sloppy accounting?

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