First Choice ER, 1st Choice ER, First Choice Emergency Room in Texas & Colorado Rip Off Medical Scam Artists and Billing scam artists Colorado Springs Colorado & Texas

Like others I walked into a local medical ER Clinic with a stomach pain.  I gave the admitting clerk my BC insurance card and she checked to see if the facility was a participating in-network provider upon my request. I was assured that I would only pay my co-pay up front and only be billed for the ammount that my insurance agreed to pay and that any extra billed I do not owe. I paid my co-pay and agreed to be examined only if as they agreed that they were in-network provider per my BC plan.  Within 20 minutes they sent me home with a Rx to have my Gall Bladder removed by a local hospital surgeon. I went to the doctor at the hospital that they sent me to and the doctor asked me why I went to First Choice ER?  He examined me and the x-rays that they took and advised that I only had extreamly small stone that may have already passed and there was nothing wrong with my Gall Bladder as he saw in the X-Rays. First Choice ER presented Blue Cross with approx. $14,000.00 bill of which they paid approx. $9900.  I paid approx $320 copay. First Choice ER is now demanding that I pay a few thousand dollars additionally to them for their bad services.  They will not honor their agreement to accept just what the BC insurance company coverage pays for standard reasonable and accepted billing charges.  Please stay clear of First Choice ER or any of their affiliates or you will regret the day you went to them!  Check the internet for reviews before you seek any services from crooks like these people.