find the most egregious and cavalier user of collection agencies is the "medical professional". To wit: I received a collection agency call for a small amount due on a pathology test taken at Cedars Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles. We had moved and all notices were sent back to Cedars. No one else and there were dozens, had this problem. The amount due was the amount Medicare did not pay. I have a supplement with a large deductible. To my knowledge it was never billed. Anyway, I was forced to deal with this obnoxious credit agency which threatened to ruin my credit which is almost an 800 FICO score. Calls to the collection agency and Cedars solved the problem but not without creating anxiety and aggravation for me. A person from the collection agency working at Cedars apologized. It took 3 or 4 letters to get the Administrator, Mr. Prisilac, to respond. His response implies that Cedars had no responsibility in this matter. For him it was all the collection agencies problem. That is not true. Cedars hires these people and like all professionals in my experience has no further responsibility. The entire responsibility, in my view, lies with Cedars etc. There is little downside for them. Their lack of interest in their patients and complete interest in collecting dollars whether due them or not is mind boggling. Unless we deal with the base of the problem, the doctors and hospitals, who are too dignified to deal with money, but will take 50% from a distance even if it is not due, this problem will persist and the public will continue to be subjected to the riffraff that is most collection agencies. These people are worse than indifferent. They attack and steal from the most vulnerable of people; the sick and poor.
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find the most egregious and cavalier user of collection agencies is the "medical professional". To wit: I received a collection agency call for a small amount due on a pathology test taken at Cedars Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles. We had moved and all notices were sent back to Cedars. No one else and there were dozens, had this problem. The amount due was the amount Medicare did not pay. I have a supplement with a large deductible. To my knowledge it was never billed. Anyway, I was forced to deal with this obnoxious credit agency which threatened to ruin my credit which is almost an 800 FICO score. Calls to the collection agency and Cedars solved the problem but not without creating anxiety and aggravation for me. A person from the collection agency working at Cedars apologized. It took 3 or 4 letters to get the Administrator, Mr. Prisilac, to respond. His response implies that Cedars had no responsibility in this matter. For him it was all the collection agencies problem. That is not true. Cedars hires these people and like all professionals in my experience has no further responsibility. The entire responsibility, in my view, lies with Cedars etc. There is little downside for them. Their lack of interest in their patients and complete interest in collecting dollars whether due them or not is mind boggling. Unless we deal with the base of the problem, the doctors and hospitals, who are too dignified to deal with money, but will take 50% from a distance even if it is not due, this problem will persist and the public will continue to be subjected to the riffraff that is most collection agencies. These people are worse than indifferent. They attack and steal from the most vulnerable of people; the sick and poor.
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