I got a call from a man asking if I was there asked for his name & company he worked for he gave me his name said until I identified I was the person he was calling for he could not by law tell me the name of the company he worked for I hung up he tried to call right back I sent him to voice mail when I tried to call him back got his VM just saying you reached the office of John Black leave a msg checked my vm later he didn't leave a msg either
You know, I would hope that the next time you visit a hospital for any procedure, you would ask them to see the Charge Master.
That's the underlying documentation that a medical facility uses to determine just how much they'll charge for a procedure to be done.
In that, it will list all items to be used by the procedure, how much Medicare / Medicaid will pay once it's turned in, and how much over that they will charge you for profit. Chances are pretty high that they won't allow you to see this. Those of us who have worked with or for medical facilities know that they'll often mark things up over 200% so that they will get their items paid for by the insurance. What the insurance doesn't pay, is usually their profit margin, which they'll turn over to a collection agency. If it doesn't get paid, they'll write it off. They've already gotten their money from the insurance, so they can, and often will. As a write off gets them a tax break.
First of all, to the dingle berry who stated that individuals need to pay their debts, blah blah blah..HELLO! LIFE HAPPENS and in todays economy--its just NOT that easy to pay bills. Working or NOT! Insurance companies do NOT pay as much on medical stuff like they use to. Instead people are screwed over and left with ungodly amounts to pay.
And these people who make these calls are always RUDE. I have a law office that Im working with now that is so incredibly nice--that collection agencies need to take some lessons from them.
Get out and get a real job instead of working for a company that has you calling and harassing people.
Secondly--I dont intend on calling anyone back by the name of "JOHN BLACK"..how retarted is that? The name in itself just sounds fake.
If you want to contact people, send them a freakin letter in the mail and then leave them a lone!
I called the # 405-290-2072 Trying to find out what the call was all about. The name of the caller was John Black . He would not give me any information until I gave him our phone number. He said he had no such number in his records. The company was a collection agency.
This guy is really rude. He refused to send me a statement so I could verify it with my records. He stated he had proof that he sent it and would not waste his companies resources to resend it. I never received a statement from them. I informed him I was going through a debt consolidation company and they would contact him. He said his company would refuse to talk to them. I contacted my debt consolidation company and they said if he refused payment then we continue to send the payment to the original debt holder and they have to forward the payment to them. Maybe this will help someone with this person.