Minnesota clinics & Hospital coruption

In Minnesota you don't have to be sued, to prove you owe a clinic or hospital bill, it is simply added to your taxes and they get paid, even if you don't owe it! I just saw it happen again to someone today. A few years ago I had it happen to me twice. One year I was paying off a hospital bill, that I disputed, by working with the hospital negotiating sometime several bills at once and paying them all off that same day.

Now these were bill's already paid by the VA and Medicare, and just what was left over that they refused to pay. I didn't feel I owed the bill's, and they refused to go to court on it so we came up with this working arrangement, where I came in each month and worked with them on each bill. I only owed around $100.00 one of the years we got a MN rebate tax and they took the check for it from my rebate. I could have settled for half that amount that same month and we wonder why hospitals can charge whatever they want. What ever happened to our right to a day in court to prove we owed or didn't owe something.

Now the remainder of that rebate went to the clinic and paid on a bill after I demanded an arbitration with social security and VA representatives present, because of two reasons, The bill was way over the statutes of limitations and they would not give me an accounting of what they claimed I owed for, because at that time they were upset with me because I switched doctors.
Now this is interesting, the fight we had was over my Urologist telling me I could have a PA do the Dilations that I got, because I was getting them at the hospital costing around $250.00 and a PA only cost at that time $60.00 and the government was just beginning the budget cuts and I wanted to do my part to cut down what the government was paying. So my doctor said I could use there PA. A few days latter they changed there mind and said I had to use the hospital. So I went to another clinic and got a PA there to do it.

Then they came after me for this bogus bill that I refused to pay. After being threatened court action by there attorney, I demanded an arbitration; you see under MN state law you can ask for an arbitration and the Attorney has to bow out and let the dispute be handled by an arbitrator. I chose the VA and social security to arbitrate this claim because they paid for all the treatments that I got and at that time the entire bill was paid by them. A few years latter they started paying a set amount and that was why I owed the hospital. So you can see that the bill was much older then the hospital Bill, in fact way beyond the statute of limitations.

So the Minnesota government has allowed the clinics and hospitals the right to be as corrupt as they wish to be, accountable to no one. No more can we negotiate a bill we owe them or go to court to prove we don't owe it or prove it was padded or inflated. Everyone else has to sue us to get paid a disputed bill, but not a Hospital in Minnesota. They are above the law and we gave them this right!!