Demystifying multiple hospital bills for uninsured

To get this out of the way I'm either buying an individual plan in November or will work for a company that offers health insurance.

I make $2,500/mo and was denied medicaid after I was hospitalized for liver pain (in July) and am in the middle of trying to adjust my medical bills.

I've settled by $8,000 ER bill for about 14% of the original amount and am still working on getting the physician bill adjusted.

However this week I received a $347 bill for "the professional interpretation of your imaging study provided by a radiologist for services rendered…". It was a female physician who I never met. I was told my the one physician I actually met that I didn't have gallstones after a CT scan but was never actually shown the scan itself.

Given that I was never shown a scan and was encouraged to just believe what I had been told, can I argue that I don't have to pay this bill? Are they likely to at least allow me to settle for a lesser amount? Thanks for any insight.

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