Tldr: My experience with Nicole Leshaw was, simply put, atrociously bad. She and her office showed ongoing incompetence, lack of good faith and either lie like hell or are terribly confused. More than a full year after my last visit, Leshaw (who is in-network with UHC, my health insurance) sent me a bill for "2 denied claims" for a combined amount of $305. After a lot of research time and attempts to fix their mistakes, I found out that the first 'denied' claim had already been paid out and Leshaw's office had been reading the statement wrong all along for a mind-boggling 18 months. The second claim had been denied because her office didn't file correctly. UHC communicated to Leshaw by letter that it was her office's fault and that the patient could not be held responsible; UHC even explicitly told Leshaw she was not allowed to bill the patient (I attached the letter to this review). Leshaw kept this information from me and sent me the bill nonetheless. She lied to UHC and said I had signed a 'waiver' by filling out her New Patient Forms. She went through all this trouble for an amount of ... $305 -after Leshaw had already cashed in almost $4,000 from my insurance for my visits!-.
Long Review: I saw Leshaw 2-3 times a week from September 2020 to December 2020. Nicole Leshaw is in-network with my health insurance, UHC. As per the participation agreement with UHC, Leshaw is obligated to file the claims and is responsible for them.
After receiving frequent treatment for 3 months, I decided to stop coming: despite the 2-3 visits per week, I was not seeing any significant improvements. I personally did not like Leshaw's bedside manners and found her attitude authoritarian and borderline bullish. Nicole showed irritation when I reported no significant improvement during the treatment. On top of that, my visits to Nicole Leshaw were the quickest chiropractic visits I have ever experienced: she sees multiple patients simultaneously in the same room, and when she gets busy, you might get 1-2 minutes of treatment per visit at most. Additionally, before I started the treatment, Nicole said that I would be able to notice improvement in my X-Ray back imagery after 3 months. When, after 3 months, I asked when we'd be taking new X-ray to see that improvement she promised, she changed her narrative and said that it would take 12 months for me to see results in the X-Ray images. Bait and Switch.
Leshaw's office has some serious difficulties filing claims: about a third of the claims that they filed for my visits had to be filed more than once. Leshaw's office was unsuccessful in filing and appealing one of those claims: UHC sent Leshaw a letter (see attached) explicitly stating that the claim was denied because of missing medical records. That same letter also explained to Leshaw that she was NOT allowed to bill the patient. Leshaw kept this information from me, and a full year after my last visit, she sent me a bill for $305 (later to mysteriously increase to $325). Despite the explicit communication Leshaw received from UHC, they hid the letter from me, lied over and over again, and said I was responsible.
Leshaw even went on to state that she 'files claims as a courtesy' (see attached). That's not true, she is obligated as per her participation agreement with UHC. When UHC called Leshaw's office to enquire why they were sending me a bill that they shouldn't, Leshaw's office lied to UHC and told them that I had signed 'a waiver' by completing her New Patient Forms.
The second 'denied' claim that Leshaw wanted me to pay for had already been paid out long ago. Leshaw and her office kept pushing back and insisting I had to pay out-of-pocket for the 'denied' claim. 18 months after my last visit and after making me waste hours dealing with their incompetence, Leshaw's office finally relented and admitted they didn't know how to read a statement and that they made a mistake. See the attached document.
I am still perplexed that Nicole Leshaw would choose to go to such lengths to collect $305 one year after my last visit; after all, she had already cashed in $3,783.63 from my insurance. It is regrettable that she conducts business in this way. First, Leshaw's office needs to get their act together to file claims and learn to read statements. And second, as per her Participation Agreement with UHC, Leshaw needs to accept that she is responsible for in-network claims that are denied because she and her office don't file properly. If Leshaw believes that UHC is unfairly denying her claims, she needs to take it up against UHC, but instead she chose to be a bully and go after the patient. Nicole clearly thinks her Participation Agreement with UHC and other rules do not apply to her and that she is above any of that. read more