Legal Question in Credit and Debt Law in New York

Re: medical bill

Statute of limitations for professional services performed is 6 years.

Mike.

Re: medical bill

Statute of limitations for professional services performed is 6 years.

Mike.

Re: medical bill

Failure to notify and bill your insurer of services rendered to you may be a defense against the physician's collecting directly from you. If you had notified the physician at the time of service that you had health insurance, then it was his responsibility to attempt to collect from the insurer. The insurer would have notified you of its denial of your coverage and would have mentioned in its notification that you were responsible for that bill; consequently giving you notice that a debt would be owed to the service provider/physician.

If that situation occurred, the physician may have an action against you and could still collect on the services he rendered. It is possible that he or his office contacted you by telephone to request payment previous to your receiving the bill.

Make sure that you dispute this letter!!! Otherwise, the physician can sue you for an 'account stated', where a contractual relationship existed between you and the doctor, you were invoiced by the doctor, and you retained the invoice and did not dispute it.