Poor from initial phone call to after-care summary. Never going back…read more
I called on the phone at various times in the day, during posted business hours. No answer. Answering system goes in circles, and eventually drops you, so voicemail not an option. No online booking option, either. I had to drive over to the location to book my initial appointment.
I took about 45 minutes out of my day, at home, to fill out the preliminary, online, questionnaire, uploading insurance card front & back to their portal.
A week later, I arrived at my appointment, and was asked to present my insurance card. Ok. Rolling back the clock a few weeks, the moment I walked in when I had hauled my cookies over there to book the initial appt, I had given them merely my name & dob, like you would at the pharmacy. I was surprised to hear the receptionist echo the name of my insurance, and be able to confirm even the member ID. She went so far as to ask whether I'm still living on XXrd Avenue, which again was correct information.
Roll back to the present, I handed her my card, advising her that I had already uploaded the image online. She advised she was just following orders.
I was then handed a substantial questionnaire. I looked at the questionnaire. It was identical to the one I submitted online. I protested. "I filled out this questionnaire, already, offering her back the clipboard. Again, just following orders, she insisted that I fill it out all over again.
I brought the clipboard over to my seat, muttered to my wife about how the HIPPA Act mainly serves the hospitals, pharma, and, when the DB gets hacked... whomever, but not the patient. I re-filled out the questionnaire, again, carefully selecting "no" answers to any questions that would send the police raging over to my confirmed doorstep, when I got home.
Inside the clinic, the PA asked me more of the same questions I answered twice, already, including the ones that would engage a police response. I told the PA to refer to the completed paperwork, and she did.
A flashy dressed physician, in red cowboy boots, came in after a while, a person for whom life's been good, save maybe for the mandatory vaccines.
Her questions started to mount into a pile of irrelevant food for the thought of somebody somewhere that was good with numbers. I was pleased, for the moment, to learn that I could opt out of the majority of her questions. I did that.
I got the referral I was after, and then left.
Weeks later the bill was stiff, and the aftercare summary contains declarations and refusals that were attributed to me, but that I surely did not say. You know in this day and age and the state of healthcare, serfdom under pharma & all, she could have called me an "asshole" in the notes and it would not have fazed me, but putting words in my mouth that I did not say/attribute actions to me that I did not do, is not ok. Especially considering the veritable "portability" of the misinformation she created.
Ask the hackers not to take your information, and the things you did not say or do out of context. Becomes a mess. Ask law enforcement, who also has the contingent right to see your records.
If you're going to make data collection so messy, ie. Get 2-3 accounts of the same questions, and then falsify some of that data yourself, you need to bear in mind for whom you're following orders. Ask yourself why you're saying what you're saying. Either you're purposely denigrating your patients, out of sheer spite, or you're just trying to rat them out in distant hope it could serve as the missing link to some kind of criminal investigation.
Poor service regardless, from A-Z.