Send  a  small amount,just to show you are paying the account. If they don't like what they are getting send  letters to Equifax,Transunion, and Experion,On the letter tell the  three credit rating agencys that you are sending what you can afford and are being harassed by the  said company but you must live within you income.

U keep getting voicemails from this company saying it us not a sales call but they never leave a name. I don't return calls unless I know who they are. Collection or not they should identify themselves and the reason they are calling, otherwise they'll never get call back or money from me.

Seriously??? This is how a company responds.

Please read the laws again. It´s from 8am - 9pm

What are you all bitching about? First of all, it is not harassment to call every single day as long as we dont make contact with the DEBTOR more than once a day and before 8am or after 9pm. You always claim you are disable, dont work and have no income. Then, how do you support yourselves?? Unbelievable, no income, no job, broke, homeless but you have a cell phone. Amazing.  Be RESPOSIBLES and pay your DEBTS. If not, dont go to the hospital. Wouldnt you be calling if somebody owes you money?

amen brother

Try paying large hospital bill for your heart condition, when they are over $10,000 on co-pays, when you are older and just on Social Security..  You will change your tune about how to pay hospitals.  They do not want to take small payments, like most hospitals do in Fla.  Walk a mile in someone elses shoes.

They called me before 9:00 Am, which is in violation of all collection laws from the FDCPA.

Hey, you can't argue with the fact that many, not all, illegal immigrants come over here expecting the government/Medicaid to pay everything when they get sick or have a child.  I am HALF NATIVE AMERICAN and I do not agree with scammers who come over here to just get everything free.

Got a call from a recorded msg. saying this is Lisa, bla bla bla credit card, there isn't a problem with your credit card, bla bla, lower interest rates, press 9 to speak to an operator.  I pressed 9 and asked the guy where he was calling from, he said Calgary, Alberta, Canada.  I asked him for the phone number and he gave me the 800 one here.  I told him I was reg. with the Federal gov.'s do not contact service and please remove my number.

- make sure you record the date and time for your complaint

https://www.lnnte-dncl.gc.ca/plt-cmp-eng

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These people are crazy.  My daughter had to go to the Northside emergency room in Feb 2009 and her bills were paid by aetna and I paid all the co pays. I get this phone call from these people demanding $238. I asked the person what it was for and he said for date of service 2/23. I told him to send me an itemized bill to show where I owed them the money and he said I don't have to I am a law firm and I am demanding that you pay. I asked him if he had lost his mine.  That I wasn't going to pay anyone money that I didn't owe and I just hung up on him.

We no longer have debtors prisons.  Tell them to get a life.  Seriously.  You can pay them  as little as 10 dollars a month and it will show you are trying.  I either dont answer or if I do I hang up.  Dont let them bully you.

Yes, it appears that this is a pre-recorded message, with the callers names alternated each week, just to mix things up a bit, (although they do like using female names that start with the letter "A" ;-)

Ok folks.  Seems that hospitals are automatically using collection agencies to collect any amount due them OR any amount that might not even be due them just because you walked into their doors.  You can send a certified letter to them that states your rights...which is to FIRE them.  Look up the Federal laws that protect you.  They can no longer call, write or anything once you send a Cease and Desist letter.  IF they do, then report them.  All this information is on the internet.  From now on...ANY medical service such as an MRI or CT scan recommended by your lovely doctors which are all in on it, DO NOT use the hospital.  Use a private imaging place.  For instance, my husband had a CT scan which cost almost 15k at the hospital and I had the same one for 500 dollars at a private imaging service.  He owes 3 times what I paid in cash...and he has full insurance and now...dealing with having to fire the collection agency and the hospital WILL accept payments but won't work with you on making a payment schedule...which means, you can keep them off your credit report yet you will be making payments for a while directly to the hospital.  It is a scam and as previously stated by someone, this is all about illegals and people who do not pay their bills...with inflated costs passed onto those of us that just need to be taken care of while sick and those of us with insurance.  My doc told me that one freaking aspirin can cost $100. at a hospital.  Always take your own pain meds, aspirins, whatever and you have to sneak them in the hospital because they WANT to charge you a ridiculous amt while there.  Private hospitals?  I dunno...they may do it too.  This country needs REPUBLICANS back into office BUT those that realize where the changes need to happen.  No wonder people are in debt and no wonder this country is in the shape it is in.  THE TEA PARTY is our only answer at this point in time.

pinch yourselves and wake up from your dream... BUSH & eight years of his tyranny along with republican idiots got us in this mess. where r your brain cells? you should've had a party when those duma$$ were in office.

Yay for you!!!  the first thing the hospital always ask me is Do you have your insurance card??I am glad someone else is as sick of this as I am!!!

So Obamawillpay do you also consider your ancestors creatures what were they Irish dutch German British Canadian. I mean they came from somewhere the only people that have any right to complain about things in this country are native Americans native Canadians and native Mexicans not those that came from Spain Germany Ireland Russia China. All of us but those native are immigrants I agree on the fact that there are illegal immigrants that either need to become legal or go back to their country till they can do this legally but the way that you talk about this just proves how naive Americans are when it comes to legal and illegal immigrants.

Call from patient account everyday about a bill from the hospital my insurance already paid over 23thousand for a 2 day hospital stay and I being billed for 1M more.Let the Republican Senator and Congress pay the bill or collection should call Congress everyday.I lost my job because of fmla  could not return to work in 12 weeks. So collection can get in line  like everbody else can,t pay what I don't have.

Keep getting calls from 'Angie' at Hollis Cobb Associates, NEVER a real person on the phone just a recording that loops and loops...Telling me to return the call. I have no idea who this person or machine is calling me about.
Guess I need to do the 'Drop Dead' letter on their stupid A** for harassing me constantly and calling my cell phone! AND in closing I agree with ObamaWillPay above 100%!!!!!

Write these people a "drop dead" letter (google it) within 30 days of when you first recieve notice from them. Tell them NOT to contact you by phone again. Send it certified/return receipt. Then if they do call again, its a violation of federal law and they can be prosecuted.

Hi!
I'm writing this email because I'm having hard time with North Side Collections Hollis Cobb Associates, calling me from 800-489-2854. I had radiotherapy as a part of my cancer treatment in northside, cancer center. They did not mention anything about the cost of this treatment. After I completed this step I received a bill about $38000 total and my part is about $1600. My insurance has already paid its side. I was just going back to work after several times being in medical leave, I contacted business office. I did not agree with $100 monthly paiment. I can hardly gain these days $1200/month. Finally they escalated this to their collector. And nightmarre started. I agreed with $100/m and let them widraw automatically on 28th each month. They call me each month several times and threatening collection on this debt being paid. This month They sent a bill and when I called them their representative pushed me to pay directly on the phone. I had the promise of the representative that automatic withdrawal won't take place this month. She said call was tapping. After this withdrawal on feb 26th, they als took out $100 on feb 28th. I can hardly manage my life with this little money I gain these days. If I could predict this would be  consequence of my treatment I would skip it for sure.

tell them to get the money from the funds that they pay all the illegal aliens bills from...i'm tired of hard working people with insurance that has to take up the slack from where these sorry a** creatures sneak in to this country and have their illegal little creatures and leave the bill to us..coming into this country shooting and beating each other and leaving us stuck with the bills...tell them to call the White House and ask for Barrack and I'm sure he will send the a check ASAP...

It's Hollis Cobb Associates. They are a collection agency and they are calling me about a past due account with Northside Hospital in Atlanta.

i've never been to piedmont hospital.  But I am in the Atlanta Area.
the caller from this number identified herself as Nicole from Holly Scott (?) Associates . . .
Never heard of them and don't know why they're calling, but I do not return calls from people I don't know, 800# or not.  Looking for information on who they are.

Received two calls from this number and both times it was a recording with a lot of static. I hung up both times as I don't have the time to waste listening to a recording, especially one that I can barely hear.

If Obama would quit bailing out banks and spending money on everything except americans  Hey give us that money and we can pay our bills

1. Close your checking account and open a new one elsewhere (preferably with a credit union). Do not let these predators get any more of your money.  

2. Write the hospital administrator or their board of directors and tell them what happened, and your complaints against Hollis Cobb Associations.  Keep a copy of your letter.  When I wrote the hospital I told them I suspected someone at the hospital was getting a kick-back from Hollis Cobb, or they wouldn't be doing business with a firm that has an "F" rating from the Better Business Bureau.

3. Ignore Hollis Cobb Associates calls--block them, if you can--and threatening letters. (But save the letters.)  They will huff and puff, but they can't do anything.

Sherri, in Congress all the Republicans and many of the Democrats are working for the big corporations that pay them off.  Do you remember when W. was president how a Democrat in Congress was trying to change a law so that Americans could buy inexpensive medication from Canada?  The Republicans fought that tooth-and-nail, saying it wouldn't be safe for US citizens to buy "foreign drugs."  Of course, they were just doing the bidding of the big pharmaceutical companies who want to keep Americans paying $20. for a pill that takes 50 cents to make.  The Democrat replied, "If Canadian prescription drugs aren't safe, show me the dead Canadians."

Well Mr Obama Will Pay. How about you pay the bills you owe. I am sure you came across this site for a reason. Let me guess.....
they are calling you as well. Well if you "skipped" out on a hospital bill than be a man and pay it. If you cant then start a payment plan or wait the 7 years it takes to be off your credit report.

dont start bitching about one issue to cover up the other.

called back today Patient Accounts.. Mine is for Piedmont Hospital in Atlanta Ga area. Norcross Ga.