INDIANAPOLIS -- A review of billing practices is underway at an Indianapolis hospital after the wrong Rafael Sanchez received a 6News' reporter's medical bill.

Rafael Sanchez, an attorney at Bingham McHale, called the station after he was mailed a $2,051.45 hospital bill intended for Call 6's Rafael Sanchez.

The invoices he received were for real medical care Sanchez the reporter received after he collapsed outside court while covering a mass murder trial on Dec. 10.

While he was being transported to the emergency room, the other Sanchez said he was in meetings.

"This is not me. Here you have certain tests performed and certainly I have had not tests like that," said Sanchez, the attorney. "I don't mind taking your calls, but paying your bills is a different story."

Methodist spokesman Gene Ford said a coding error led to the billing of the attorney, though records show he had not been at a Clarian Health hospital in nine years.

But Sanchez the attorney said that information wasn't accurate either, because he was in law school in Bloomington then, and didn't move to his current address until 2003.

Federal privacy rules dictate that all medical information must be kept private, including invoices sent to individuals.

Deputy Attorney General Dave Miller said what he read from the bill listing the services provided for Sanchez the reporter's dehydration was enough to be classify it as a violation of federal rules.

"HIPAA is specific about protecting privacy," he said. "They need to take steps immediately to solve those procedures and problems they created."

Since February, the Attorney General's Office has had the authority to enforce federal HIPAA rules and seek fines, when necessary.

Ford assured Sanchez the reporter that other patients with similar names can trust the system, and that changes are being made.

"I am confident that you will be able to come back and see the progress we have made in admitting, registering and billing patients," he said. "Though rare, still, it should not of happened."

Sanchez has since recovered.