Collections agencies need to provide you with an itemized list of what you owe and to who.
If a hospital gives out this information, especially if they didn’t even try to collect it themselves, they have violated HIPPA.
Will a collections agency give you a document proving they vioated HIPPA? No. Do you owe debts on something w/o receipts? No.
Think, not a lawyer, it’s not effectively true. Collection doesn’t need medical records, they just need a number to go after. Hell collections don’t even need to prove you have the debt they are going after, they can still go after you. Lots of stories of people paying off debt and still getting calls about it