Legal Question in Health Care Law in Tennessee

Re: hospital bill

Interest is appropriate if the original debt entitled the owner to interest. Sometimes the credit agency is acting on behalf of the creditor, sometimes they have bought the debt at a discount, but in either case, the credit agency is usually entitled to everything the original creditor would have gotten. That means the debt plus interest. THe only exception would be if there was a statutory bar to such interest, but I've yet to hear of one.