<prompt> Human: So I had a few medical bills that had piled up but looking through my bills sent through the paper mail, it seemed as though Insurance wasnt covering anything. This seemed quite off to me because I had called Insurance before having some of these office visits to make sure that they were covered, and they stated that they were. After calling Insurance, then the hospital, then the insurance again, then the hospital again quite a few times, I finally had a 4 hour long conversation with both the insurance and Hospital billing on the phone. They figured out that the hospital never sent certain bills to the insurance before billing me for it. It had already been 3 months since the date of service, and therefore, the insurance informed me, I was no longer liable for any amount of these specific bills from these specific dates of service. There were other bills that had been sent through insurance and then sent to me that I have now paid. I called insurance and the hospital recently after that and confirmed that I no longer owed on those bills. However, now that some time has passed, it appears the hospital consolidated those bills into one bill and lowered it a little bit maybe so that I wouldnt recognize it? and then sent it off to collections. So now I have a collections agency coming after me for nearly 1,000 USD. If it wasnt so much money I would just say fuck it and pay it. But since it is quite up there and I dont really have the money for all that I want to fight against having to pay what I was told I was not responsible for in the beginning. Trouble is, I dont think they will believe me, Im not sure how to convince them, I didnt recognize that this was the bills that they were at first, AND already gave them a small amount of money. Am I fucked?Edit: added tldr, broke up the wall of text a bit.Tldr: insurance and Hospital agreed I was no longer liable for certain bills because of a filing error. The hospital consolidated these certain bills and sent them off to collections anyways. What do?Assistant: Contact the hospital again and have them send you something with a letter head stating that it was their error and you are no longer responsible for these bills. Contact your insurance company and do the same thing. Also have the hospital contact the creditors to have it removed. Once you get the letter from the hospitalif it hasnt been removed call the creditor and ask them if they received notification on this not being your responsibilty. If they havent send a letter to them explaining the situation and a copy of the letter from the hospital. Curious if your insurance paid those bills? If they did, its illegal for the hospital to charge you for those services. Double billing is extremely unlawful. Im not 100 sure if you can sue them for that but also might be more of a waste of time and money to go that route. If your insurance paid you can send a copy of the EOB to the creditors as well showing they were already paid. Human: Thank you. I will do these things and try and get back with you all. I really appreciate your help.  <response>: I work in medical insurance billing and know a thing or two about it. Definitely make sure you get proof of payment or something from the hospitalinsurance comapny stating you no longer owe them for the DOS. Usually insurance companies can also handle such matters. File a huge complaint with them. Sometimes depending on how many claims and complaints, etc they can stop a hospital from participating with them and will no longer pay their facility for any services rendered thru their coverage. You may not be the only one this has happened too and although they may not do it because of your complaint but if they get enough it surely will. 