First of all, the physical therapists I worked with at this location, Amy and Brian, are wonderful, compassionate humans who work hard. While I attended my appointments at Professional Physical Therapy, I was confident that I was in good hands. But since I finished up there, PPT's billing office has been so shockingly unprofessional that it can only be interpreted as fraud. I would never go back to this place or recommend it to anyone.
I finished up physical therapy in the beginning of March, but it's July, and Professional Physical Therapy continues to erroneously bill me for varying amounts of money. We're talking hundreds of dollars each time. Every few weeks, I get a new statement telling me I urgently owe a large, random amount of money, and I have to call them to get them to clear it up again. Then, lo and behold, several weeks later, I receive a new statement for a different amount of hundreds of dollars.
On my last day of PT, the woman at the desk handed me a huge surprise bill they had never mentioned before. She said she didn't know why the balance was so high, because they were in-network for my health insurance, and I ALWAYS paid my copay before leaving an appointment. When I called my insurance company to ask what was up, they told me PPT had started billing me as "out of network" when the new year started, and that PPT would need to refile their claims with my insurance.
I called PPT, and I was first told by a billing rep that it was their mistake. He emailed me an amended statement that indicated THEY owed ME a copay back (huh?). I told him to keep it and was glad to have cleared it up. Then, 3 weeks later, after I got my next bill with a different balance of hundreds of dollars, I was told by 2nd billing rep, "You owe this amount, and I personally don't care whether or not you pay it." I immediately spoke to a supervisor, who investigated and decided I didn't owe them any money after all, and that they DID in fact owe me the equivalent of a copay. This still makes no sense, but whatever. Again, I was just grateful that we had resolved their misunderstanding.
Nope. Yesterday, I got another fraudulent bill for another different huge amount. So yesterday I had to call PPT billing again. A full 4 months after I terminated service. They gave me the run-around, and finally today I got a (different) manager on the phone. He confirmed that I didn't owe PPT any money. When I told him I think they are scamming people, he said PPT couldn't possibly have as many locations as they did if they were a scam. Uh. Okay. In the end, he "gave me his word" that PPT would not contact me anymore. My fingers are crossed, because right now I feel like I would have to go into witness protection just to get this company to stop deciding every few weeks that I owe them money. Healing my body should just never have had to involve all of this.
This place is a chain, and has lots of locations, but they all bill from Melville, NY. There are lots of identical complaints about the billing department in reviews for other locations, and I found a ton of Better Business Bureau complaints online saying the same things I'm saying. It looks like they end up sending a lot of people to collections as part of their scam.
I think about the little old people that were on the tables next to me during my appointments at PPT, and I get VERY worried. When they open up one of PPT's enormous bogus bills, do they just assume it was their own mistake? Do they just shrug their shoulders and send PPT a check right away, afraid they're going to be reported to the credit bureau or something?
Don't go to this place. They may help you manage your pain, but their billing department will replace it with months and months of headaches. read more