Recently our PCP sent us to you for the purpose of...
Recently our PCP sent us to you for the purpose of a sleep study. During the initial consultation our insurance was verified and a date to ship the kit was sent. We were to be back home to meet the kit on Dec 31st 2019 but were delayed due to the death of my father on Christmas morning and the funeral that followed. When we did finally get home we started the test as instructed but after the first night we received a message to contact you and were then told to not continue and finish the testing until after the insurance could be verified for 2020. We waited around a week and never received a call back to continue until after we received a call stating that we were over the allotted 7 days and were to return the kit or face over charges. We then contacted you again and were told to go ahead and keep the kit and that the insurance coverage for 2020 has been verified. We used the kit the next couple days and sent it back.
We have now received a bill for the service and it was not submitted through the insurance. We called the insurance to verify this and then called and talked with one of your billing representatives. They stated that it will not be submitted to insurance.
This is fraud and unacceptable.. You cannot bill for a service that is in advance verified to be covered by insurance and then not submitted to them. The fee that you are requesting from us should be used towards our deductible within our insurance. We signed no contract with you that we would pay for a service directly and were under the understanding that in good faith you would submit this as required.
We look forward to you fixing this error in your billing department and hearing from our insurance that it has been submitted as required. In the interim we have paid the bill to prevent you going to a claim department.