medical
can a business delay to bill you
<p>I thought my insurance was paying for my pt.  but then after i stopped going for a few weeks i got a huge bill in the mail.
is it legal for them to not send a bill (delay billing) for a couple months (waiting till i was absent for a number of weeks)?</p>

<p>Oregon, USA</p>

<p>There is no general legal requirement to present a bill for medical services within, say, 14 day or 1 month of services having been rendered. In Texas, there is a timely-billing requirement that says</p>

<blockquote>
  <p>a health care service provider shall bill a patient or other
  responsible person for services provided to the patient not later than
  the first day of the <strong>11th month</strong> after the date the services are
  provided.</p>
</blockquote>

<p>The exceptional conditions pertain to billing dates established by insurance contract, and by Medicare / Medicaid rules. There is no analogous rule in Oregon, save for one relating to <a href="https://wcd.oregon.gov/Rules/div_009/9_16050ub.pdf" rel="nofollow noreferrer">workman's compensation</a>. Since you have apparently have insurance, this raises the question why the insurance company did not pay for those services. If insurance received but partially rejected a claim (for example paid up to some dollar amount and no more), the hospital would have complied with the Texas law, and after some unspecified period would bill you for the remainder: there is no provision requiring the remainder to be billed within any particular time. However, there is a general statute of limitations past which they cannot collect on the contract: <a href="https://www.oregonlaws.org/ors/12.080" rel="nofollow noreferrer">in Oregon</a>, that is 6 years (from service rendered).</p>
