Complaint Review: University Of Utah Health Care

I have been put as responsible party on my X’s Annette’s Account by Annette. All services she requests are billed to me. They refuse to remove me from her account as a matter of “policy”. They are billing me for services Annette requests unless Annette requests that they stop billing me. They do not verify the victim of this fraud’s information. A bill for over $800.00 went to collections and I didn’t know because the bills were sent to Annette instead of me and I never knew about them until collections called me (I live in KANSAS not UTAH). They ruined my credit rating. Now they have the correct address so at least I got the latest bill for $224.06 for services she requested. The bill does not say what it is for and when I asked I was told for “cough”.

Caveots, The billing is for my son Mathew. In the divorce decree it says me and my x annette asbell are both 50% responsible and the person who pays the bill is to request 50% from the other person. I originaly though It meant that she was to pay then I pay here for 1/2 like we have done in the past because my son lives with here and I pay $564.00 per month in child support and she is the person who brings him into University Of Utah Health Care and requests services. After carefull reading of the divorce it only says 50% responsibility. It does not say who is to pay for the bill in the first place so now we have this legal grey area.

Here is my problem. I make a good salary and have no problem with paying my 50% but my X lives on my child support and disability because of her bipolar mental illness. She also is a bit of a hypercondiact and is a smart malipulative vindictive woman. Like I said before, the first bill I recieved was for over $800.00 but I didnt know about it until I got called by collections. This was actually a few years ago and I was living in Oklahoma. I called University of Utah health care and told them I knew nothing about the bill and I was living in Oklahoma and I didnt have anything to do with her taking my son to them. I called my son and he said the bills were comming to his house ( my X's house ) and that is why I didnt know about the bill. What could I do? I never had collections hound me before and they are relentless so even though I felt wronged I paid all of it. I did make sure U of U health care had my correct address.

About 3 weeks ago I got a bill for $224.06 It only says Pediatics Office Visit with no reason or what was done. When I asked they said it was for a complaint of cough. I explained about the divorce and said I would be willing to send 50% directly to them instead of waiting for my X to pay them and they agreed and I sent $113.03 to them and they cashed it but then I got another bill for $224.06. I request that They bill Annette for this because she is the one requesting service. I dont even live in the same state. They say I am the one listed as the responsible person. I say then remove me from her account because I did not agree to anything and in fact I had never been to thier facilities. The say I cannot be removed from her account unless Annette requests it. I say this is absurd. You mean I can come in an put someone else as responsible for the bill and there is nothing they can do about it?. They just say over and over again that I cannot be removed from Annettes account. This is policy that I cannot be removed as the responsible person for her bills unless she request it. I said I had sent the divorce decree and I thought we had a deal that I would pay 50% like is says in the court order I sent them. I ended up getting a supervisor that said the same thing. I cannot be removed from the account unless annette request it. I will have to pay all bills or they will go to the attorney general for collections. If I take mathew to them can I put annette as the responsible person? I should try to get a recording of the answer to that.

Its not even the money that has me so pissed off. The problem is that Annette likes to get other people to do her dirty work. In fact she once called the police and said our van was stolen to get them to arrest and throw my mother in jail but that is another story. She is scary. It would be just like her to change the address the bills are sent to so that I end up in collections again or take mathew to the doctor every week on some excuse because she knows she will never have to pay a dime. Please, Please, Please. help get my name off of her account so she can not do nasty things to me or my credit.