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  1. #1
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    Default Responsibility for Someone Else's Medical Bills

    A year back my father (69yrs old) visited us at Los Angeles USA for the first time from India, who is having one eye and second one is lost in an accident 15 yrs back. After staying here for a month, his vision went blurred. I had taken him to Walmart vision center, the doctor advice me to go to Eye Specialist (retina). We immediately went to Retina Specialist at Los Angeles, doctor (Indian) did not accept his travel medical insurance(taken in USA). He asked 1200 dollars for the treatment. We are so tensed and agreed to pay the amount request. The whole day we waited and in the evening he gave some injection into the eye and asked us to follow up after a week.
    He (Doctor) says everything is fine and started telling about his friends some medical business(in India) and asked me to look for some graduates. I asked him the specifics of the business, he is never clear on what the business is about. Everyweek at night (after 10PM) he calls and talks about his friends business deviating from eye treatment. This continued with two more follow-ups. No one asked or raised about follow up fee, since this is part of treatment paid in advance. One night he called me to come for a meeting at Wyndham hotel city of Industry CA. We went there and realized that he is trying to pull me into Amway type business. Next day he called me and asked me to join. I told him that he lied about the business, my reputation towards my friends came due down due to the e-mail he wants me to send for recruitment. Clearly mentioned that I am not interested. As per the last conversation he desperately want to be a millions by any mean. My father went back as the Visa got over without any improvement in vision. He went to a specialist in India and under going treatment blood pressure and eye. After a month he left to India, some from doctors place called and asked my father, she said my father owes some 300 dollars. Told her that he left to India and doctor is aware of his schedule and we paid the full treatment amount in advance as per the charge mentioned. Their send three mail (one mail / month) addressing to my father. As he is not here, return the mails to from address.
    What can be done for not receiving these mails to my address?. Can doctor use treatment time for other matters?. We have to pay whatever their demand, pretty sure these mails are send since I did not join the business. My father is not aware of these mails, did not mention due to blood pressure and he cannot pay,
    Please advice me in this regard.

  2. #2
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    Default Responsibility for Other Person's Medical Bills

    It appears from your account that the bills are exclusively in your father's name.

    Absent either a law which compels you to pay (and there probably isn't one), or your having signed an agreement with the doctor to pay for your father's medical costs, you are not obligated to pay your father's medical bills.

    If you want them to stop sending you the bills, as yours is presumably the address they have on record for your father, your best approach is probably either need to convince the billing agent that the address is incorrect, or give them your father's billing address in India. Or, if you prefer, to keep sending them back.

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    Thanks for your response. I did not sign any agreement to pay my father bills. As some of my friend suggested, sending the mails back.

    What is the law if someone send bills by adding false reasons?.
    Any bureau to handle this type of corruption?.

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    Default Presumably, it is the address your father gave

    As your home address is presumably the address your father gave when he obtained medical care, and as you presumably knew that he was using your address, it would be difficult to characterize their sending bills to that address as fraud. If your father believes the bill is inappropriate, your father may be able to file an objection, for example, with the state medical licensing authority.

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