Working at a hospital that you owe $, possible?

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Specializes in LTC.

If you owe a hospital money, are they able to look at your finacial records and see that you owe money thereby denying you a job d/t to that?

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Specializes in Pediatric Critical Care.

This is coming from someone in Canada where the healthcare is different but I would think they would NOT be able to do that... But I guess if administration really wanted to know they would have a way of finding out... :twocents:

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Some places are checking credit reports, so it ended up there, yeah its possible. But I'm not sure they run reports to see who still owes money at their hospital. They may actually want to hire you in hopes you will start paying it back????

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Specializes in LTC.

That is something I would LOVE to do is pay them back. It is the ONE thing that looms over me all the time is that bill. It's called no insurance and in school. Sad but nothing I could do :(

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I don't know about not hiring you because of it, but I do know that once they find out you are on the payroll they will start deducting it from your pay check.

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I don't know about not hiring you because of it, but I do know that once they find out you are on the payroll they will start deducting it from your pay check.

In the US they cannot deduct anything except court ordered garnishments and taxes from your paycheck without written authorization for you.

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Ive always wondered that myself. I have a ton of medical bills from having my son (crappy health insurance). My son had some problems when he was an infant and has some med bills from that too. They're just so expensive and there's no way I can pay them anytime in the near future. so if that is the case, then that's 2 or 3 hospital I can't work at

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I don't see how it can be on a credit report. I owe a hospital and a drs group money. (It was part of my 20% that I needed to pay and part of a deductable) I called them and arranged payments to them. I've gotten them down to $25 a month. One month something happened and it looked like I didn't pay for 2 months and it was turned over to an outside collections company. That company threatened to turn me over to the credit burea. After calling the hospital back they took the account back and stated that they never willl do that with any hospital bill.

Long story short..even if the hospital does a credit check it prob won't come up unless you never made an attempt to try and pay any portion of the bill.

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I would expect that you would be strong-armed to set up a deduction for payment before they would sue you, once it was discovered. I would think twice about working for someone under these circumstances if I was not capable of losing part of each paycheck for this purpose.

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Specializes in Quality management.

I work at a hospital that I owe money they did pull my credit and I got the job. I live in Florida

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I do know somebody who obtained a job under these circumstances. They had a meeting with the boss, about two bosses up the line, and as I recall, the results were not pleasant. But they were allowed to keep their job. I was in the military. Nobody liked getting called in to see a superior when the subject was going to be: Pay Your Debts. If you owed the government, you didn't have to worry about setting up a payment plan, the government did it for you. These two scenarios are why I don't recommend getting into this type of situation if possible. It can become mighty uncomfortable.

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I worked at a company I owed money, retail related field.

When you got hired, everyone was encouraged to get their credit card so you could get the employee discount. I did, and a few years later, fell on hard times. I owe them like $800. They never said anything to me, even though they could easily access my account.

However, I was always worrying they would see it and say something and I would be completely embarrassed. I was also always worried when I applied to be promoted and such. That alone wasn't worth it.

I left the job for other reasons, but had I not, I would not have wanted to live with that stress.

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