Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Can I request a health insurance company to pay a bill of a service done four years ago?

I had a health care service performed on me four years ago, and just recently the service provider is claiming for a payment. I have another insurance company now, can I ask my previous insurance company to pay? As an additional note, due to a miss on the provider side, the bill never got in my hands and they sent the claim to a wrong insurance company. Finally they sent the bill to a collection agency, this is how they found me and also how I knew about this bill.
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I would never say never - I do believe that many insurance companies have a time limit on when they will reimburse a claim, some as soon as 12 months after the service. However, I would communicate to them what you did in this question and see what happens. It cant hurt!
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