Hospitalist Medicine Physicians of Virginia LLC Sent fraudulent medical bills, filed fraudulent claims with Medicare under my Medicare account Los Angeles, Oaks California, Pennsylvania

In April 2022, I received a bill from Hospitalist Medicine Physicians of Virginia LLC for $4827.00.  The details of the services supposedly provided to me were for hospital stays at Winchester Medical Center in Winchester VA on 4/1/22, 4/2/22, 3/26/22, 3/27/22, 3/28/22, and 3/29/22.

I was never in the hospital at Winchester Medical Center on any of those dates. As a matter of fact, I have only been admitted to that hospital once in my entire life (I'm 74 years old) and that was in 2015 for a kidney stone and high blood pressure.

I did not pay this bill. I did some investigation of my own and found that the website mydocbill.com was actually registered to GoDaddy.com but was registered by proxy. A website by proxy is one that the owner does not want people to know who he is. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, commonly referred to as ICANN requires that a website owner update personal information such as contact name and address, contact phone number, etc.

Failure to give this information and update it yearly can result in losss of the domain name. By using a proxy, GoDaddy becomes the contact and all contact information is listed as them, not the actual people who are using that doman name. This is often used by scammers and porn website owners.

In May 2022, I received a second bill from these people for $6263.00. The details of subsequent services were for hospital stays at the same hospital on 3/30/22, 3/31/22, 4/1/22, 4/2/22, 3/25/22, 3/26/22, 3/27/22, 3/28/22 and 3/29/22. Again, I was never in that hospital or any other hospital on those dates. I did not pay the bill but I did report these people to the FBI for healthcare fraud.

In July 2022, I received a third bill from the same people for $546.00. The details of that bill said "Advanced Care Plan 30 Min." Each of these bills stated that their claims with Medicare under my Medicare number were denited. How they got my Medicare number is beyond me.  Again, I did not pay the bill.

Then a few weeks ago in July, I received a statement form Medicare showing recent claims filed and paid. Medicare had actually paid some of these claims. I called and reported that these were fraudulent claims. I even received a letter just a few days ago thanking me for reporting this fraud and stating that they were investigating this company. I also asked that they not pay any more claims filed by these people on my account.

Today I received notice from my Supplemental Medicare Insurance company that they had received claims from these people and that they paid some of those claims. I reported to their support department that these ware fraudulent claims and that they should not pay any future claims they get from these people.

So far these people have billed me for over $10,000 and have received payments from both Medicare and my supplemental insurance company. I do not know how they got my account numbers but they did. I asked Medicare if they could pull a report from their system to see if anyone else has had claims from this company. I was shocked to learn that they did not have that capability.

These people are getting paid by Medicare and other private insurers for fraudulent claims which could add up to millions of dollars. I am filing this report in hopes that anyone else who receives these bills report them immediately to Medicare.