探親母親因病去看急診室,現收到帳單,該如何處理. 可否拒付?會影響下次簽證嗎?

Hi,

My mother was sick and I called local hospistal and let them know she is visiting me from china and has no insurance. the person who answered my phone said she can come for emergency room and can apply for government free medical program and don't need to pay fees. So I brought my mom to the hospital and they checked her urine and gave her antibiotic. Then I asked about the program and somebody in the hospital said she is not eligible for the government medicare(mass health) since she will be back to her country. I argued with her and told her before she viisted the emergency room, another person said she can come and apply for the mass health. now I have received a big bill $700 for the visiting. Can I just ignore the medical bill ? will it affect my mom's next visit?

Thanks for your great help.

 

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• I would pay the bill rather than ask question -文學城壯丁- ♂ (21 bytes) () 12/05/2011 postreply 14:00:00

• I also will pay the bill. It is actually not a big deal. -redwest- ♀ (0 bytes) () 12/05/2011 postreply 14:10:01

• do you remember the name of the person who you talked to ? -bzq101- ♀ (102 bytes) () 12/05/2011 postreply 14:35:00

• 同意樓上的看法， 付了吧， 才 700 -xixi2009- ♀ (133 bytes) () 12/05/2011 postreply 15:32:17

• 700就付了吧。 -曉青- ♀ (0 bytes) () 12/05/2011 postreply 15:37:49

• 你去之前打電話時，是否講清楚visitor身份？一般接電話的人都不會想到外國的visitor的 -yray- ♀ (187 bytes) () 12/05/2011 postreply 15:56:36

• 回複：探親母親因病去看急診室,現收到帳單,該如何處理. 可否拒付?會影響下次簽證嗎? -bei22000- ♀ (118 bytes) () 12/05/2011 postreply 16:21:32

• 回複：探親母親因病去看急診室,現收到帳單,該如何處理. 可否拒付?會影響下次簽證嗎? -amylee2- ♀ (638 bytes) () 12/06/2011 postreply 10:33:42

• 可以等等。醫院會跟你打折的。 -thisway- ♂ (0 bytes) () 12/06/2011 postreply 14:22:09

• you should have known "no free lunch" first. -jmszuo- ♂ (310 bytes) () 12/06/2011 postreply 17:37:22