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wingman
I'll find out tomorrow...
The person who handles my account is not in.
Forgive me for venting! sheesh.
It is the first thing that goes through my head when I get a bill is that it is a shady situation. I'm sorry I don't think it is that people are unprofessional and not able to their their jobs... Sending a bill out incorrectly!
As far as a "clerical error" it's pretty sad that a person who is a professional - medical biller - will make such a mistake, especially when on the paper they deal with that left the office that went with the doctor, that a copy went to me, and the original went back to the office from the doctor that said $75 paid on it. Did you know that? Did you know it was a $75 office visit with no discounts someone would need a memo about? So why give me an attitude? sheesh.
The sad part is these clerical errors never happen happen (at least for me) at the garage or the pizza shop! ...but happen all the time in medical billing! I've never once paid a garage $x for a service, even if it was discounted, and then get a bill later for $x after I've already paid for service. These professionals should be ashamed! sheesh. That's the problem with NYS! These doctors just bill bill bill and if the states covering it on medicaid, they wouldn't have even questioned it, just paid it. ...we wonder why the state is broke! BTW, charging one price for an office visit and then charging me another price later and billing me a balance is NOTHING like a pizza guy forgetting about a special they are running. sheesh. Maybe in your mind, but something tells me, over how much you had a make a point that it was am simple mistake, you are in teh medial billing field.
An honest mistake? Yea probably. I still don't think it was all that innocent, maybe a lot of carelessness.