Re: Dr. Elariny's More than 120 Days Past Due First Bill

[Guest guest]

Write a letter to you credit bureau and send a copy of the paperwork to

prove your case. They can change whatever shows on your record. I had a

hospital " turn me in for collections " even though I was making regular

payments according to our agreement. Then when I had finished paying them

off...they turned it in as not paid. I contacted the credit bureau and they

straightened it all out. The hospital or collection agency claimed that

they didn't show that I had ever owed them a bill....how convenient...then

give me my money back!!! LOL!!

Good Luck,

Jerry, Southern Gal from Louisiana waiting on insurance

>From: kaybeekaybee@...

>Reply-To: duodenalswitch

>To: duodenalswitch

>Subject: Dr. Elariny's " More than 120 Days Past Due " First

>Bill

>Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2001 15:28:10 -0000

>

>Hello all,

>

> Yesterday, I got my very first bill from Hazem Elariny's office.

>It recited that it was " >120 days past due. " Chilling to the blood

>of anyone who's about to apply for a mortgage, as I am.

>

> I saw Elariny for a BPD/DS consultation in December 2000; he did

>the pre-op work in January. We then parted. In July 2001, Elariny

>billed my insurer for the consultation and pre-op procedures. His

>office sloppily coded the bills as " treatment for obesity, " and BCBS

>turned them down flat. Elariny's office had not communicated with me

>at all, and had not asked my assistance, but I wrote to BCBS on my

>own initiative and the bills were paid in August. Elariny then

>proceeded to bill BCBS again for the office visit and scopes for

>which BCBS had just paid him, and when BCBS rejected the bills as

>already paid, he dispatched to me his first and only bill for my co-

>pay (several hundred dollars, because he isn't a BCBS preferred

>provider), with its bald declaration that it is more than four

>months " overdue. "

>

> The bill itself disproves its own claim of lateness, as it doesn't

>list any prior billing activity.

>

> I just talked to Elariny on the phone, and he defended

>the " overdue " notice as " accurate " on the ground that the insurance

>company hadn't paid him promptly (why didn't he bill them promptly,

>or properly?)--and then he hung up on me.

>

> My credit rating is sterling, and I have done nothing to tarnish

>it. I am not amused by this situation.

>

> I'm told that many doctors delay for months in billing insurance

>companies, patients, or both. Do those other doctors also send

>out " past due " notices when they finally get around to billing the

>patient?

>

>

>Kay B.

>Lap DS 3/2/01

>Doc: Not Elariny

>

>

>

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[Guest guest]

Dear Kay,

I am not sure of which state that you live in

however you should know that this Drs office cannot

expect you to pay this bill at all.When they billed

your insurance company they had to list everything

that they were billing them for,if they failed to do

so it then becomes the drs problem not yours.When they

sent you the bill with past due,that had already been

paid by your insurance company they are commiting

insurance fraud.If they add this on your credit report

as " past due " you can sue them for ten times the

amount of what was put on your credit report.

If you havent done so already,contact the

insurance company and get a print out of when the bill

was submitted,you will also want an itemized list of

what they were charged for and what they paid,keep the

bill that the drs office sent to you.Send them a

letter certified stateing they were paid be your

insurance company and also include copies of

everything that you have.

If they persist I would consider contacting an

attorney in this matter.

I went through a simular thing with my gyn and was

billed 2100.00,due to a billing error on there part.I

fought it in the same manner as above and won.

If you have anyquestions please feel free to email

me .

Tara

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[Guest guest]

Dear Kay,

If Dr. Elariny did not submit this bill for collection, it will have

no bearing on your credit rating.

Jane J.

> My credit rating is sterling, and I have done nothing to tarnish

> it. I am not amused by this situation