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  • Report:  #1081640

Complaint Review: western dental corporation - stockton California

Reported By:
nannamonster - stockton, California,
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Updated:

western dental corporation
p.o.box 1259 dept # 18882, oaks, pa 19456 stockton, 95203 California, USA
Phone:
2094734000
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•Email: [email protected]
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 western dental is commiting corrupt fraudulent billing practices.  i am retired san joaquin county and therefore have to choose between few dental companies for treatment.  i did not know what this western dental was like. ihad my first visit with them 06/17/2013, (at this visit- i was told no copay required)  this was for a dental cleaning, xrays and exam. the xrays and exam were done, but with their office you have to see the dentist you were assigned to.  plus they were having problems coding my insurance.  so they scheduled my for 06/19/2013.  this time the assigned doctor was not in.  so i waisted my time. they rescheduled me again for when the doctor would be in 06/29/2013.  i was finally seen with a clean 6 month check up.  i thought , great!  only to be fooled by their fraudulent billing practices.eventhough they had all my insurance information and received a fax from my retirement company as to the coverages,  the actual dental office supposedly had the correct insurance coding, but the corporate company showed me as private with no coverage. the first billing i got from corporate was 06/25/2013.  i contacted the dental office.  they stated ignore it.  it was in error.  they would email corporate and straighten everything out.  the next billing 07/18/2013.  plus received over 15 collection phone calls by very rude people.  who refused to listen to me and contact the dental office.  they told me to do that.  which i have done numerous times.  next bills 07/25/2013, 08/18/2013, 08/24/2013.  then reported to the credit bureaus on 08/25/2013.. my account kept incurring 25.00 late charge fees, which kept being adjusted off.  on 08/28/2013 i went into the dental office and waited til they did some reviewing of the account.  they said everything was all cleared up, but that i had a 5.00 copay.  they could not even get the copay straight from the beginning.  i paid the copay that day.  i received the notification of the credit bureau reporting 08/31/2013.  i contacted the corporate office.  they said that the account was balance zero and therefore closed so nothing could be done on their end as far as the credit reporting goes.  so i contacted the actual dental office regarding this issue, they stated contact the corporate office.  neither would budge to notify the credit bureaus.  it would not matter so much accept i have great credit.  this ruins your credit.  im in the process of contacting my retirement company and asking that they terminate the contract with western dental also that they do something about the credit reporting issue with western dental.

 

what is truly odd.  when i got a list of the charges and payments.  the payments show zero.  this makes me believe that their maybe income tax fraud  involved.  this is a company to be very careful of.

 

patricia, stockton, california



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