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  1. #1
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    Red face Do You Have to Pay Medical Bills Sent Under Your Former Name

    My question involves collection proceedings in the State of: Colorado.

    I am receiving medical bills addressed to my former (married) name. When I went to the hospital, I provided them with my current insurance card and driver's license, yet all providers are sending the bills addressed to my former name from over 7 years ago. How can I dispute this since I have not had the name for many years?

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    Default Re: Receiving Medical Bills with Wrong Name

    Dispute what? Are these bills for services you received? If so, you owe them. It's possible if you were already in their system, they just updated your insurance information without updating your name. My wife went to a hospital run by a big hospital corporation one time that she hadn't been to one of their hospitals in decades. They initially just updated the insurance information and we had to remind them several times to update her name.

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    Default Re: Receiving Medical Bills with Wrong Name

    You won’t avoid responsibility for medical bills you incurred in the hospital just because the bills are coming in your former married name. If the matter went to court, what will matter is whether you are the person who incurred the bill, regardless of what name you have or what name is one the bills. The hospital provided you a service that you agreed to pay for. Now that the bills are coming in, it's your responsibility to pay as agreed. After all, when you do work you expect to be paid as agreed, right? So why are you trying to basically stiff the doctors and others who treated you at the hospital? I trust you can see that’s not just or fair.

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