Michael W on BBB 3 years ago
10/30/2019, 21:36 PM
Sneed Dental Arts provided satisfactory dental care to me and my family. However, their billing practices and financial records management are unsatisfactory. Some of the specific issues i had with my account:
* I suspected that the company had significantly overcharged me for services, thus i requested an account history, which the company provided. The history contained significant errors and could not be used to reconcile insurance and patient payments to services rendered.
* The account history contained charges for services that were not received for $596. Interestingly, this entry was submitted into their system after the system showed that a significant refund was due to me).
* At a meeting with Dr. S**** and her office manager, Dr. S**** admitted that their accounting system was unreliable and could not be used to construct my history (what other option is there?)
* Dr. S**** was not pleased that i had seen my automated account history. Due to the inaccuracies and unreliability with the automated systems, Dr. S**** provided me an "audited" history of my account, which was a hand written itemization which also contained errors and inaccuracies.
* After proving to Dr. S**** that she had significantly overcharged me, she did provide a partial refund.
* For one specific charge, Dr. S**** admitted that she had submitted an incorrect code to the insurance company for a service she says she provided. She promised to have the claim resubmitted under a different code in order to get paid. In the interim, she is holding onto my $140 that the insurance company would pay to her if the claim is for a legitimate service. Dr. S**** agreed over 4 months ago that the $140 is due to me but has not acted on my numerous requests.
I would like to encourage all of Dr. S****s patients to carefully review their account with her. In summary, here are a few of the issues i had with my account:
1. Fictitious charges - (being billed for services not rendered)
2. Charges that exceed the amount agreed to with your insurance company, failure to make correcting adjustments
3. Failure to apply all payments (insurance company and personal payments) to your account
4. Owing the customer a refund and not informing or refunding the customer (Her records showed a significant refund was due to me for several months. I only got reimbursed after i made numerous calls and visits to her office and threatened to take her to small claims court)