3 years ago
This hospital looks nice and shiny on the outside,...
This hospital looks nice and shiny on the outside, but is run by completely incompetent, emotionless, noncaring, money grabbers. They will put money even before the health of a 10 month old baby that hasn't been able to keep any fluid or liquids inside him for three days and is crying while in uncontrollable distress.
We took our fully insured son there for a severe stomach infection, and were informed we'd have to pay a 4000MYR deposit, which we were shocked by. How can a fully insured baby need a deposit of 4000myr simply for diarrhea? Now I know why... they will hold your deposit as long as they possibly can and offer you ridiculous excuses as to the reason why.
My wife was left for hours while I tried to come up with the money with a screaming, extremely sick 10 month old baby. It was an awful ordeal. The staff refused to help at all or find her anywhere in the hospital to try and calm down the baby. It was clear the staff and hospital did not care at all about the well being of the patients, just the cash.
In the end, I went down to speak to the admissions staff and asked how much deposits are for people with insurance, to which I was told 300MYR. I then asked why I was being asked for 4000MYR then, and they realised I was a patient and suddenly all the excuses started coming out. In other words, they had tried to rip us off to the tune of 3700MYR at the expense of my 10 month old baby's physical health and my wife's mental health. They then had no choice but to take 300MYR (on top of the initial deposit to see a doctor) for a total of 800myr. I was told the deposit would only be held and would be refunded instantly on discharge.
Of course, on discharge they suddenly couldn't give the refund as promised despite having a guarantee letter from our insurance. In fact, they denied ever having taken the 300MYR deposit, and if it wasn't for my arguing they would have tried to simply keep it. Also, now it was going to take 7 to 14 days.
Ten days later, I still have not received the refund. So I contacted PCMC, only to be told some more ridiculous excuses, but no surprise, they haven't issued the refund yet. It will be at least another 7 to 14 days.
Think about how much this hospital is holding in deposits at any one time, and how much interest they are making on that cash. It is an absolute scam.
They don't care about the health of their patients, even 10 month old babies, unless they have your cash in their pocket, even if you are fully insured.