Dr. HORNG J LIN MD did adequate work but even though my dad who is a US veteran after 20 years of service and has Tricare, Medicare, and private health care insurance that he pays for monthly, Dr. Lin's office billed my dad the full amount.
My mother called to figure out why they had not billed the insurance. The woman said she had the insurance information and would get it fixed. Then without any further communication, the doctor's office sent a another bill and a final notice threatening to go to a collection agency.
This is the American health care horror story that shouldn't even apply, because my dad is triple insured. The ambulance companies, the hospitals, the home health, and the other doctors don't have any problem billing my dad's insurance/medicare.
1. No other health care entity has been this incompetent regarding billing. We had not had any problems with any other company or health care provider. This tells me that Dr. Lin is working with or hired incompetent people to settle his bills.
2. I've heard it all before - doctors don't want to deal with billing, they just want to focus on the medicine aspect and BLAH BLAH BLAH. Doctors should have the DECENCY to hire someone competent to work for them, not run their patients bankrupt. We pay the health care insurance premiums - your office, DR. LIN, needs to just not be stupid.
3. The lack of communication and automated referral to a collection agency is cold, distressing, robotic, inhuman, disgusting.
When you are in the hospital, you don't have a choice who treats you unless you want to transfer hospitals. And due to lack of transparency in this country you have no idea how you're going to be billed. And even if you pay for insurance, some doctors don't give a damn and want you to pay off their Teslas and Aspen trips and Gucci bags for their wives/husbands, and private tutoring and schooling for their snotty kids.
Ridiculous. Americans need to ask and you need to demand and hold doctors accountable. Make them think twice about the crap they don't want to think about. Make them have a conscience and strive to make better decisions with regards to who they hire. Their hands aren't clean if they choose incompetent people to run their office. read more