I came in for routine, cleaning, whiteing etc... Nothing big. I paid over $500 cash for services rendered, and, being honest they did a good job.
However my insurance was changing and my dental coverage was no longer available. I had an outstanding debt of $97 after paying over five hundred at the time of services.
I was unavailable for personal reasons, however, my wife was available and spoke to Dr. Gould often as my kids were in the same school and Boy Scout troop as Dr. Gould's. They put me in collections for $97?!?! His staff tried to help and said he is not involved in the billing so that is why he did not reach out personally. Sending something to collections, does allot of damage to someone with otherwise good credit.
It was paid as soon as I learned about debt (albeit a long time after). I now have to go through a massive headache to get this tiny debt removed from my credit report. $97 what's, there take from that after a debt collector get's there cut, something like half? Dissapointed this happened, and of course I wanted to pay anything I owed, now off to work on getting it removed.
The collection agency, they use actually told me if the amount was higher they would help remove it from my credit, but this was not enough, so I was on my own. The problem is... small debt not paid looks worse than large debt as you look irresponsible. read more