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Originally Posted by Tbear
This continues the thread I started called Villages Hospital ER - Awful which attracted quite a few replies and several thousand views.
I mentioned in my original post that I walked out of the Villages ER after 2 hours passed with no one as much as taking my wife's temperature. She was treated immediately at Leesburg.
I happened to be reviewing online what Leesburg submitted for insurance reimbursement when I noticed a claim submitted by none other than The Villages Hospital.
It turns out that The Villages Hospital submitted a claim for almost $3000!! For what? I notified my insurance company who contacted the hospital who said it was for Triaging my wife and associated paperwork - which they never did!
I again notified my insurance company that the hospital did absolutely nothing and they will again pursue it.
Even though this doesn't come out of my pocket, it irks me no end that The Villages Hospital ER is attempting to collect money for doing absolutely nothing.
To be continued....
Tbear
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I began this thread with a promise for it to be continued. Well, after notifying my insurance company that Villages ER did nothing but put a wrist band on my wife and told her to sit in the waiting room, they paid the ER $552 which is the medicare allowance for the $2290 the ER charged them.
I guess from a corporate point of view, it likely costs the insurance company more than $552 do refute the claim but as one respondent in this thread suggested - this is fraudulent in nature by the hospital -
I had to chuckle at the recent article about the Villages hospital in the FEB POA bulletin entitled " The Villages Hospital: Working toward Extraordinary Care "
Do Mr. Pittman and Susan Williams really know how poor service is at their hospital? The article makes for great reading reminding me of my corporate days when consultants were hired to create well polished, top level, multi-phased plans to impress the board of directors and stock holders. I sincerely wish them well and hope they can improve things for the sake of all of us.
I'm tempted to point out this thread ( and the many others ) in this forum to them so their research can see what their customers are really saying...
Tbear