I Had An Accident While On Vacationing In The Us And Now I Don’t Think I Can Pay The Hospital Bill.

Hello Reddit here’s my case. Hopefully, you can give me some guidance.

I’m from Mexico and last week I went for a few days to visit New York City. On the last day of my trip, I had an accident in a in a bicycle where I broke my left arm.

A good Samaritan called 911 for me and I got picked up to the nearest hospital. Since my flight back was that day, I asked the doctors not to do any procedures on me and to just patch me up and let me go. That’s exactly what happened. I got a sling for my arm, some medication (which I paid for) and I also got an x-ray for my arm. After all that a nurse took my information, they took a copy of my ID and I sent them via email my medical insurance. After all that I was let go.

A couple days later I was in the hospital in Mexico and I received an email for an invoice for the x-rays which was about $30 this was more than OK with me, but today I received another invoice for almost $4000. I noticed that in the invoice it’s not addressed to my full name (missing middle name) and it has an address for New York and at random phone number, which is not mine.

This might be a problem for the insurance company since all the documents I have to provide need to have the same information so I’m worried the insurance might not cover this amount.

This is my dilemma, the $4000 charge is almost unpayable for me so I’m wondering what would be the consequences if I don’t pay. I don’t want to get my visa removed. Should I call the hospital and see what I can do? Has anyone encountered a similar issue? Any help would be greatly appreciated thanks.