Complaint Review: Phoenix Financial Services LLC

 I received a collection notice for an unpaid hospital bill from nearly six years ago. Apparently, this info was sold to them from Pendrick Capital Partners, LLC. I emailed Phoenix to contest the collection because I am not aware of outstanding medical bills. The amount owed is $269 to Virginia Emergency Physicians, LLC, the company that supplies contract ER doctors to hospitals. I am familiar with them and have paid bills to them in the past. I received a reply with a simple statement showing my personal information and an amount owed. The statement wasn't a bill from Virginia Emergency Physicians and did not have any letterhead or company information with it --- it could've easily have been typed and printed out by anyone! I called the hospital where I would've gone, and they had no record of an ER visit for me, only some outpatient lab work and regular visits to my doctor. I was told to call Billing, and they could not verify the information. I was unable to locate a number for Virginia Emergency Physicians that WAS NOT at a hospital, so I haven't been able to talk to them. My credit report shows no collection activity or outstanding bills from Virginia Emergency Physicians. I have had other bills from them since 2011, and never an outstanding debt owed. I question the fact that this has come nearly 6 years since the "supposed" date of service, and I believe this is fraudulent collections activity, particularly since they did not produce an actual bill and the hospital medical records department shows nothing for this date of service.