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| Suzannah's Cat puts her tail in to the picture. I can't express the upset except I get pains in my chest and ditto for a series of events close to home like this. I remember a very rude motorcycle shirt that had a suggestion for punishing stupidity. You can see the Beth Israel logo in the corner and I covered up the info because as discussed with the NYPD and the the 9th Precinct with someone they are familiar with -- some people have an obsession with me that is really freaky...been discussed with NYPD, lawyers, bloggers, and activists and forwarded to media. |
St. Vincent's was so superior to Beth Israel it ain't funny.
Beth Israel keeps sending me bills for my emergency room visit for when I broke a bone in my foot --- bills for money I do not owe them. Rather than hold on line I continue to leave them voice mails where they promise to call me back and they do not call me back and continue to send me bills.
My health insurance covered the outrageous and shameful billing to x ray my foot and confirm I had fractured my 3rd metatarsal which was done promptly. (The break is in the top middle part of my foot where the toes and the foot meet and was surprisingly painful.)
I was than made to wait for hours for a nurse to come and tape my broken toe to an unbroken toe for which I was charged 200 dollars!!!!! 200 hundred dollars to put tape on my toes.
The emergency room charged a fortune but still I paid in full including a 50 dollar co-pay.
I continue to call www.chpyc.org who collects for Beth Israel and ask them to stop sending me bills for money I do not owe them and to keep their promise they make to call back in 2 work days which so far they have no done.
Prior to this they sent me an even bigger bill. I called and waited until I spoke to a worker who said I had in fact paid in full and to disregard the bill. Since than I have been sent 2 more bills.
One of my family was actually born there but I would now urge New Yorkers to find another hospital or in my case even though it would have taken weeks don't bother with hospitals. The MD I saw at Beth Israel for a follow-up is a super person who got me in to a boot because my foot was not healing. I wish I had worn it longer because I do not think the fracture healed correctly. He also saw the taping was not working so he showed me how to tape 3 toes together.
BETH ISRAEL AND THEIR BILLING DEPT. ARE NOT WORTH IT.
AVOID THIS HOSPITAL.
Last time I used St. Vincent's I had accidently sliced the side of my calf open -- it involved a highway metal divider -- don't ask -- it was gruesome. I had to stop a really nice *NYPD officer who got a medical kit out of his trunk and helped me to get a bandage compression on my leg so I could stop the bleeding. I got back on my bicycle and go myself to St. Vincent's. I was bummed they did not have an MD stitch me up but a doctor's assistant. It was a wide gash and I have the scar but the medical care as well as the billing was A plus.
Beth Israel F- and I never ever want to go back most of all because of the billing but truly after the x-ray they could have sent me home right away instead of keeping me for hours and before taping they could have said look Ms. Troy -- if you tape it yourself you will save yourself and your insurance company 200 dollars and I would have taped it myself.
I went for a follow up with the great MD from Beth Israel but he was backed up for many hours so I left and never saw him again. Beth Israel has some great doctors but is poorly run. Too capitalist prices for a hospital run like communist Russia.... be prepared to wait for hours at Beth Israel.
Beth Israel did me a cane which I was grateful for and some very kind men and women would sometimes offer up there subway seats to me which was very kind.
I may have broken another toe but I learned my lesson. Forget the MD's.
Continuum Partners keeps sending me bills for money I do not owe Beth Israel and also promises to call me back if I leave a voice mail and has not kept their promise.
* I tried to track him down and I am not sure I ever succeeded but wrote a Commander for what I guessed was his precinct thanking and praising the guy.
