The pure unprofessional-ism, and might I mention, illegal form of practice is exactly why I am reporting this office to the Better Business Bureau.
I went in for a routine annual physical. With my insurance, it is 100% covered. I was still asked to pay a $30 co-pay. Okay, fine. I pay it, I assumed I would be reimbursed by my office or insurance. I do the physical, and only the physical (no other medical concerns were brought up. At the end, I asked Dr. Chan if she could fill out a form for my place of work (just a simple form that shows I had my physical completed) so I can turn it in for a gift card reward that my office was doing as part of an incentive program to give employees motivation to get their physical done.
I, unfortunately, was not supposed to get charged for my physical, and my office was not responsible for me paying the $30 co-pay so I called Dr. Chan's office and spoke to both receptionists and asked for a reimbursement.
They told me I had gotten an "Employee Physical" done and that was why I was still charged for the physical. Keep in mind, I specified "Physical" and only that in my sign-in sheet and that was all that was discussed with Dr. Chan. I had not mentioned the incentive program to anyone but Dr. Chan and that was after the physical was performed. I was charged the co-pay before anything was even done. They had no way of knowing what exactly they were charging me for since nothing had been done yet. To their knowledge, they were only charging me for a physical. Which, again, is 100% covered by my insurance, so they were fraudulently charging me. Then, they tried to use my incentive program form as the reason for the $30 charge. Again, fraudulent charges, as Dr. Chan confirmed with the receptionists that there was no charge for filling out the form I brought in.
I had my HR representative give them a call, and Alejandra (we believe that was her name) lied, and told my HR rep that "other" concerns were discussed during my physical and that was the cause of the charge. Number 1, she should not be discussing my physical with anyone and she has nothing to do with that nor would be know what was discussed since that is between my doctor and I, so that was 1 part of the illegal activity I observed. 2, she lied, because only the physical was discussed between Dr. Chan and I, and when Dr. Chan asked if I had any other concerns, I told her no. 3, the supposed charge that was for the form was charged before I even mentioned the form to them. 4, they told me I needed to submit a claim for reimbursement, even after I confirmed with my insurance that the doctor's office should be the ones submitting claims and that I should be reimbursed.
I am filing a complaint with my insurance company (who confirmed they should not have charged me for anything as they are a medical group that is in my network for my insurance) and will be reporting this business to the BBB for investigation as they are making false claims about patients and fraudulently charging them.
Both receptionists gave me a difficult time, were absolutely zero help, and quite honestly were unprofessional and rude.
I am sorry for Dr. Chan to have to go through an investigation, she is a nice doctor, but should really keep her employees in check. I will be sending her a letter to inform her of my intentions and the difficult time I received unnecessarily.
Long story short, workers are unprofessional, liars, and make fraudulent charges. read more