In 2006, my father had massive heart failure and was taken to Arrowhead Hospital.
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Unfortunately, they did not take his insurance. When they billed his insurance, they charged an unreasonable amount and Kaiser (his insurer), only paid what was reasonable and customary.
At this point, under the law, Arrowhead should have sued Kaiser if they wanted their money. What was illegal, was to bill and then sue my father for the remainder of the payment. This is called Balance Billing and is illegal in California, and has been since 1975.
San Bernardino County Central Collections took over the “debt” and proceeded to lie and threaten my father in order to strong-arm him into paying the bill. This was in 2008, and he was still recovering from the massive heart failure and near-death experience at the time.
With no way to get an attorney, he had no way of knowing that the representative for the county was lying when he said that, under the law, my father had to pay the remainder of the bill.
Fearing liens and other repercussions, he was coerced into signing a stipulation to pay the debt, under the condition that no further bills or liens would be placed against him.
A condition that the county broke shortly thereafter. With this, they broke their part of the agreement, and rendered the whole thing null and void.
Ten years later, they are trying to get the money again, plus interest! While looking into some way to negotiate and settle with the county, my father discovered the illegality of the bill and blatant abuse of power involved. Now we are fighting this judgment tooth and nail to stop this injustice.
The county and court are making this extremely difficult. By backdating papers, not notifying us of having filled new things against us and general subterfuge, they hope to keep this quiet and steamroll over us.
I refuse to let them take down my father in this immoral and disgusting abuse of authority. If they want this kept quiet I will shout it from the rooftops. If they think we will just give up and roll over, I will stand up and fight.
I will protect my family and fight back against this corruption, and I ask that you help me do so, by spreading this story as far as you can. Don’t let them silence us. Don’t let them steal from us. Don’t let them sit back and think they own us.