- Report: #1413915
Complaint Review: First Choice Emergency Room - Dallas Texas
Reported By:
Leroy Jenkins -
Pearland, Texas, United States
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First Choice Emergency Room
P.O. Box 840795 Dallas, 75284-0795 Texas, United States
Phone:
888-855-1779; 844-564-217
Web:
fcer.com
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First Choice Emergency Room I went in to make sure I didn't have a broken bone in my back. I gave them my insurance, and paid 150$ deductible. Saw a nurse who took my vitals, and then they gave me a CAT scan. A doctor saw me and wanted to do a blood test -? so I let them. I thought they were very nice, until I got the bill for $14,400! Dallas Texas
I went in to make sure I didn't have a broken bone in my back. I gave them my insurance, and paid a $150 deductible. I saw a nurse who took my vitals, and then they gave me a CAT scan. A doctor saw me after and wanted to do a blood test (?) so I let them. I thought they were very nice, until I got the bill for $14,400! I called my med rep for my insurance to see what they charged me for, and he told me that it looked to him "like they charged you $5000 just for walking in the door!" My insurance paid them approximately $13,000 (90%) but that that still left me paying an addition $1370.35.!! I did NOT have surgery! The CAT machine they used I found one for purchase for $50K! I called to get it reduced in Jan 2016, but they wouldn't go below $855.00 but demanded payment that day. I set up a revolving account to pay them what I could each pay day, starting then, but still got hit with a collection agency demanding $955 after I've already given them $320 +150 that they aren't accounting for, plus they added more! The collections agency has a doctors bill that I've never seen, and I doubt my insurance co. has either, of new account number, and for 157.60. I got a letter informing me my name was on a class action law suit against the company, so I filed the papers they sent, and stopped the payment plan from 7/2017, to 12/2017. I started it back up when I realized I was still obligated for the debt even though I was being notified of a case againt them.
This emergency room, doesn't just charge "emergency" room fees. They overcharge by 1000%! Then they have the gall to turn me into a collection agency when I was paying their rediculous fees as best I could... These "Stand Alone" emergency rooms are a huge RIP OFF! Govenor Abbott needs to shutdown the loop holes they operate under taking advantage of people.
