In My Opinion Follow Up

In My Opinion Follow Up

Contributed by Paul Johnson

You may recall from last month’s submission that I have filed a complaint with Alaska’s A.G. Consumer Complaint Dept. (1-888-576-2529) against Mat Su Regional & their contract E.R. Doc for fraudulent & deceptive billing practices. Thank you to all who called in support of exposing these fraudulent practices that have been going on for over 29 years, according to the representative that I spoke with while trying to negotiate a reasonable and accurate bill. Their exact words were, “I’ve been with this organization for over 29 years and that’s the way it’s always been done.” Please continue to call in support of exposing this three-decade old fraud.

We received our complaint packet and case number from the State on 3-21-’24 and it’s fair to assume that the hospital/Dr.’s billing service received the complaint on or about the same time. Yet, to date, there has been no communication whatsoever. In fact, neither entity even sent us an invoice for the month of April, knowing full well the bill is due on the 15th. It is our belief that not only is the hospital/Dr.’s billing service intentionally ignoring a complaint from the Attorney General for the State of Alaska. As retribution for filing that complaint, they are now trying to force us into a Late Pay situation by not billing us at all, thereby ruining our credit that way. We aren’t falling into that trap. We are mailing out our agreed upon payments at the end of the previous month so it will be there well before the 15th of the following month. The AG’s office was contacted and advised of all of this and will be sending a follow-up complaint package to see if they will respond to it. If not, we will continue to pursue this case together.

Thank you again for all of your support.