In February, I went to the emergency room for a slip and fallen ice and with my discharge papers, it said exactly that.
Fast-forward to three weeks later, I noticed online something was added to my reason for my visit, which was “ effects of stripping paint”. – um never did this ever.
I contacted hospital line to have this fixed. It’s been 2.5 months since reporting this and it’s still there.
Just now, I found out the “effects of stripping paint” was added to my emergency room notes 15 minutes AFTER I was discharged. It was from an anonymous nurse/doctor. Every other note had the employees name and to purposely not to have their name shown on my end is more work for them.
Well, come to find out one of the doctors that was listed in my emergency room notes is a nurse practitioner, that somehow tried to charge my health insurance.
My health insurance flagged it, never paid their half and never told me about it and had me pay.
This “effects of stripping paint” somehow is now connected with a MRI I scheduled myself 3 weeks after the emergency room visit the reason listed for MRI as “ fall from stripping”. I’m extremely embarrassed and mad
Doctor committed insurance fraud on me?!
byu/truestory143 inInsurance
Posted by truestory143
2 Comments
This sounds like a clerical error, not fraud.
Seems more like a mistake than fraud. It happens. A couple years ago, someone noted on my wife’s medical record that she had a history of diabetes, when she absolutely never had. We were able to call them and fix the mistaken record to remove that (as that would be problematic for anything medically underwritten in the future). They may have ticked the wrong box or put it into the wrong medical record.