Went to ER with extreme back pain. The PA would no...

Went to ER with extreme back pain. The PA would not do any tests on me claiming that the hospital has stopped doing this type of diagnostics because some insurance companies won t pay. Refused to do any thing for me and sent me home while I was drugged up on morphine. Shame on them! They told me to go follow up with a back surgeon!
They sent me home while I was on morphine! Then they overbilled me from my emergency room visit above the $80 co-pay I was supposed to pay. Yes, I was driving myself.
The next day I couldn t walk. I had to crawl to and from my car. So I drove to Melbourne regional medical Center. I pulled up to the emergency room and waved for a guard to come out, and when he did, I asked him if he would bring a wheelchair out to me while I parked my car, which he graciously did. They did a CAT scan on me and found out I had a serious injury to my spine.

Two months before this episode, I went to Holmes regional for a sprained ankle. My medical insurance was with Health First at this time. My emergency room visits are to be $80. If they did $100,000 worth of tests and diagnostics on me, I would only pay $80.
They have been billing me for an ankle boot and crutches above the $80 which they would not remit. What a bunch of scum dogs. After my second episode with my back, I immediately dropped my health first insurance and went to Careplus Insurance and have not looked back yet. It s so nice to be onto a five star insurance plan instead of a one store plan!

I know many nurses that work for Health First and they hate them with a passion. They know there s not much else around here in competition for them to go to so they treat them really bad. You nurses are coming down from up north now all about unions. There s a reason that healthcare professionals, the police, and firemen and postal workers are on union! You guys need to organize these hospitals down here so that staff and patients get better care, quality care that is!
You nurses are coming down from up north now all about unions. There s a reason that healthcare professionals, the police, and firemen and postal workers are on union! You guys need to organize these hospitals down here so that staff and patients get better care, quality care that is!
Hey Health First, don t bother reaching out to me - just fix your broken system. You would just be keeping up appearances only way and not really giving a damn about my experiences.