I was beyond furious, and wrote to them to tell them so. I told them that I pay every bill that I receive and had received no bill from them and furthermore I had no idea what they were talking about, I had not received any services at this hospital and four years after the fact was a little late to be informing me of this matter now.

Then I accused them of just sending out random bills to random people, figuring if they collected anything from anyone they were that much further ahead and told them if I heard from them again I would report them to the Attorney General for fraud. I heard no more from them and it never showed up on my credit report.

Some time later it occurred to me that the timing might have been at a time that my daughter had hurt her ankle and I had taken her to an ER for x-rays to make sure it wasn’t broken. But since that time the hospital had changed hands and changed names.

I guess this lawyer had been hired to collect old debts but that didn’t change the fact that I never got a bill that I didn’t pay, and if he had written a decent letter looking for information I would have gladly talked to him, but since he started out with such an accusing tone it never even occurred to me that it was legitimate. I just thought he was scamming people and wondered how many people got scared by his letter and paid bills they didn’t owe.