Give it to your son.

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Would you pay this medical bill ?

What bill?

Ignore it.
You mention the "excellent insurance" you had at the time. I'm certain the insurance company paid the bill. If you want,you could contact the insurance company. Odds are the will still have records and, if (unlikely) it's a valid bill let the company deal with it.

Thanks for all the replies. I was going to call their payment office today but after reading the advice I will not contact them. While it is not unusual for providers and insurance companies to get the billing wrong, have the wrong code etc.., 17 years later, I'll let them talk to each other.

My son graduated college 2 years ago as a computer engineer and has a nice paying job, but I don't believe we owe the money, and I won't ask him to pay even if it turned out we did.
In this case, silence is golden.

i see you response and agree

they are casting hooks into the sea to see who nibbles

nothing to gain IMO

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Originally posted by a1abdj:

One of the things that will restart the SOL is acknowledging the debt exists.

Please stop giving legal advice. Acknowledging the debt's existence doesn't "restart" the statute of limitations. (At least not in Texas, and I doubt this is the law elsewhere.) This subject, as many are, is a lot more complicated than laymen realize, but saying that acknowledging the debt will restart the statute is not accurate. It is possible to create a new obligation on which the statute hasn't run by some actions, but that isn't the same.

I generally agree that there is no need to respond, unless they are reporting this debt to credit agencies, but it isn't for this reason.

Thanks jhe. I've been reading your threads and post for a long time and respect the advice you have given out over the years.