What are the laws on paying psychiatric hospital charges when a self-admitted person wanted to be released at 7 days-the maximum insurance allowed, and the hospital got a court order and held him for an additional 3 days against his wishes? Insurance didn't pay for this, and we were told it would be written off. This was in 2000, now 5 years later we received a bill from a collection agency that bought the hospitals old accounts, everything else was paid for, but they want an additional $2800.00 for the 3 days extra they held him. Can I fight this? Any advice would be appreciated.
marylwise@yahoo.com
marylwise@yahoo.com