On January 15, 2007 I was at Dr. Paul Berger Dental Clinic for a scheduled filling of two teeth. After the treatment, I was asked to pay US$90.00 as my co-payment. I asked the billing secretary to give me a printout of the charges and it alleges that the entire treatment is for $194.00 and thus the balance of $104.00 is to be billed against Delta Dental, my insurer.
On February 5, 2007, I received in the mail a billing from Berger Dental Office office alleging that I owe the amount of $230.00 plus an interest charge of $4.39 for a total of $234.39. I called Berger Dental Clinic to remonstrate about this matter and spoke to a a certain Judy Jacobsen. When I told her that the bill is in error because I have a printout to prove that for my part I have fully paid my co-payment, she said I would have to give her that printout to prove my claim. I told her that she is in error and that this is not the first time, my billings have been in error and inflated to my disadvantage. I, therefore, warned her that unless she makes the necessary correction, I would recommend to my office's benefits administrator and our insurer that her dental office be stricken off the accredited dental offices to be patronized by state employees. At this, she said : "You do that Sir, but you still owe us $363.00." Again she inflated the amount even above the inflated billing I received on February 5.
On February 7, 2007, I received an advisory notice from Delta Dental that they have paid for the dental procedure done on me at your office and that my co-payment is only $32.00.
PREMISES CONSIDERING, it is obvious that I was overcharged the amount $58.00 (FIFTY EIGHT DOLLARS) that by Berger Dental Clinic ($90 minus $32).
On February 7, 2007, I received a notice from the Berger Dental Clinic signed by their insurance coordinator, Judy Jacobsen, that I still owed them some money and if they do not receive payment from me on or before March 1, 2007, they will turn it over for collection to their collection agency. They are still insisting that I owe them $234.39 when as a matter of fact that Delta Dental informed me in an advisory notice that the dental procedures performed on me cost only $160.00 with my co-pay as $32.00 while they had already paid the balance of $128.00 to Berger Dental Clinic. I have all the original evidentiary documents to prove my case. I am an employee of the State of Virginia which provides my health coverage and the actions of Berger Dental Clinic constitutes a manipulation for unjust gain of the State of Virginia's health plan for its employees to the detriment of the State and its employees. Premises considering, this should be a case for the Office of Attorney General of the State of Virginia.
Crescente
Virginina Beach, Virginia
U.S.A.