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Maybe someone here will be able to help guide me through this but it comes with a little story.
A year and a half ago my husband got out of the military, Right at the end of his enlistment I had to have surgery which should have been covered by the active duty insurance Tricare. over a year after that we got a call from a collection agency saying that we never paid our debt to the hospital. They were extremely pushy and I thought it was a scam at first but I did my research. After I looked into it i found out that they messed up my husbands enlistment paperwork so tricare thought he had been out of the military for 4 years and decided not to tell us.
I called up tricare and they informed me that we were responsible for the debt since a year had already past. We didn't have the money to pay it and were trying to negotiate with the collection agency to make payments but they continued to refuse, stating that we had to 'make the payment in full' which is impossible.
We kept fighting for a way to get either tricare to pay for it, save up money, or get them to take payments to no avail for a few months. Finally we were served papers, and then a judgement was filed against us. I read it through once i got the paperwork and it doesnt say anything about garnishing wages or anything like that but its very confusing.
We are getting to our wits end here and are just trying to get on our feet, has anyone here seen anything like this?
A year and a half ago my husband got out of the military, Right at the end of his enlistment I had to have surgery which should have been covered by the active duty insurance Tricare. over a year after that we got a call from a collection agency saying that we never paid our debt to the hospital. They were extremely pushy and I thought it was a scam at first but I did my research. After I looked into it i found out that they messed up my husbands enlistment paperwork so tricare thought he had been out of the military for 4 years and decided not to tell us.
I called up tricare and they informed me that we were responsible for the debt since a year had already past. We didn't have the money to pay it and were trying to negotiate with the collection agency to make payments but they continued to refuse, stating that we had to 'make the payment in full' which is impossible.
We kept fighting for a way to get either tricare to pay for it, save up money, or get them to take payments to no avail for a few months. Finally we were served papers, and then a judgement was filed against us. I read it through once i got the paperwork and it doesnt say anything about garnishing wages or anything like that but its very confusing.
We are getting to our wits end here and are just trying to get on our feet, has anyone here seen anything like this?
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