REM is awful.My experience with the sleep study and the billing department are well below a 1 star.
Sleep Study:
Once having an authorization from my insurance, REM was prompt on calling me to come in ASAP. When I made the appointment, the lady over the phone was pleasant. When I went in to spend the night and do the study there were two guys working in the front, young and looked super unprofessional. They asked me to fill out some forms and when I asked if they needed to see a insurance card, they were like "wait? your covered right?". Why are you asking me that- I mean didn't REM call me to set up the apt saying I was authorized?! SO I had to wait until one of them called around to see if I was covered.
My second complaint about spending the night there was the super 8 motel room with bathroom attached, um... how can one even get comfortable to sleep in there with the ten million wires connected to them. And then knowing there are two random guys in the front lobby just randomly hanging out. My suggestion to REM would be to at least keep both a male and a female working there at all hours. It is a little weird being a woman, getting into one of those hospital gowns without my bra on on attached to a dozen wires to sleep in a made up hotel room with two young guys monitoring me.
Billing Dept:
So REM called me after getting a approval and authorization from my doctors office as well as my insurance company. Then they called me in. That was in September of 2013. Today, May of 2014- I have a collections agency calling me that I owe them $4000! That REM called my insurance and they did not make a payment. REM refuses to call the insurance company, even through I got all the documentation that it was authorized. "The client has to do some leg work to get this solved... is what they told me over the phone. REALLY!? GET ON THIS STUPID BILLING DEPT! IT'S"S YOUR JOB!
I was approved and authorized to get the sleep study done before you treated me. What is the problem? read more