[HarryHirsch]

If you get a bill you don’t agree with, just don’t pay it.

That is the way. A couple of years back, a physician tried the out-of-network labs scam with me because they try it with everyone. It does like this: you piss in a jar at the intake visit, the physician sends it off to an out of network lab for high-complexity drug screening, and you get presented with a 4-digit bill.

Everyone is innocent, the physician said "you peed in the jar", the insurance says "out of network", and the scam lab says "services were rendered". When you make it clear that any bill will be disputed and attempts to collect will end up in court, they settle for 0 dollars.

They still tried the same on my wife, a few months later. All physicians are scum of the earth.