I am asking for a friend who just received a bill for services rendered from 2014- present. These were behavioral health visits, so there are many dos (seen weekly) from 2014- present.
Medicare is primary and was billed timely, as the services were paid at 80% by them. Her 2ndry has a large deductible, so it did not pay the 20%.
She never received any bills from the provider until this week when she received a $655 bill for all of the coinsurance from 2014- present. Their reason was "no one was doing the billing until recently."
Is there any legal time frame in which providers must bill patients or write off the charges? She was certainly not expecting this huge bill ! We are in NY if that matters.
thanks for any help.