222 days of UPMC billing nightmares
Paying UPMC bills
UPMC-GoHealth Urgent Care
Why do I owe an additional amount after paying my co-pay during my visit?
How long will it be until I receive a bill if I have insurance?
Edit: It's been a long time since I posted this but just wanted to add a comment to say that they eventually dropped the charges after I was annoying enough for long enough. They never did get me the transcripts from my call. Now, I always ask if there will be a hospital fee when I book an appointment anywhere and have successfully avoided further headaches!
Edit for tl/dr: if you’ve ever fought a dumb UPMC charge and won, how did you do it?
It’s been 222 days since I posted about a ridiculous charge UPMC threw at me for going to see a gastroenterologist for no care, just a 10 min new patient appointment where I got a prescription for heartburn meds and was told to come back on 3 months. I’m still working on this issue and think I’m just going to try filing a small claims suit. Is there anyone here that knows where to start with this, or who has had luck doing this themselves? I have the bill and an itemized statement with billing codes that says I should have a $0 balance aside from the “hospital fee” they’re trying to charge me, even though I didn’t go to a hospital and didn’t receive hospital-services. I’ve been trying since March to get a transcript from the call where they said I “may” get charged a hospital fee, since I know that on that call I was also told that I wouldn’t actually be charged the fee, since I was going to just be visiting a regular doctor, not in a hospital. No one has been able to get that for me yet. Would love any help! (Also I don’t know how to link my original post eek sorry but there’s more info there)