I am Canadian and visited the US a few years ago. The trip resulted in me visiting the hospital for a few hours, but i received no medical treatment. Once I got home I received some ‘sketchy’ medical bills. Where my name and address were located on the bills, someone had white-ed out whatever was previously printed there and had written my name and address (partially incorrect) with a pen in blue-ink. I contacted my travel insurance company and sent them photocopies of the bills, but they denied me coverage and basically told me it was my problem. I thought this was really weird. I had no money to pay for the bills at the time, but i held on to them. After a few months they stopped sending bills to me.
Since then, no one has contacted me to make payments, and due to the forged look of the bills, they have remained unpaid. I am now planning on another trip into the US and am planning on using the same insurance company.
I was wondering if the unpaid ‘bills’ will affect my ability to get insurance and will this become a problem if i have to go to a hospital during my stay?
Canadian Billed With ‘sketchy’ Medical Bills- Will This Affect A Trip Into Us?
Oct - 24 | By: AHT | one comment.
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I would think that because of the fact your insurance company denied responsibility for the previous bills, that it should not preclude them from selling you new insurance.
I travel to the U.S., and buy insurance from the Canadian Automobile Club, and have never had a problem with them.