探亲母亲因病去看急诊室,现收到帐单,该如何处理. 可否拒付?会影响下次签证吗?

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 -文学城壮丁- ♂ (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

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

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

• 你去之前打电话时，是否讲清楚visitor身份？一般接电话的人都不会想到外国的visitor的 -yray- ♀ (187 bytes) () 12/05/2011 postreply 15:56:36

• 回复：探亲母亲因病去看急诊室,现收到帐单,该如何处理. 可否拒付?会影响下次签证吗? -bei22000- ♀ (118 bytes) () 12/05/2011 postreply 16:21:32

• 回复：探亲母亲因病去看急诊室,现收到帐单,该如何处理. 可否拒付?会影响下次签证吗? -amylee2- ♀ (638 bytes) () 12/06/2011 postreply 10:33:42

• 可以等等。医院会跟你打折的。 -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