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| - i made an appointment at Az. Vein and vascular centers Chandler office in May of 2014 for my varicose veins after seeing a prominent doctor with a day time talk show endorse them. That was probably one of the worst mistakes I have ever made! After having an ultrasound done, Dr. wall came into the room for 5 minutes to tell me he recommended I have a Venogram (vein X-ray) done because my results for the ultrasound were inconclusive. Reluctantly I trusted him and had the vein X-ray done. All was fine until weeks later the claims started coming into my insurance $200,245.00, $20,702.00, $9033.00 and if that wasn't enough they continued to submit claims all for this 30 minute vein X-ray! Some of the claims were even triple claims for the same amounts $5,278.00 X 3 and $9,337.00 X 3 = $43,845.00. When all was said and done the total amounts billed to my insurance totaled $273,825.00 for a 30MINUTE VEIN X-RAY in their outpatient facility and 20 minutes later i was driving myself home. Something is very WRONG!!!!!!
After plan discounts my insurance PAID Az, Vein and Vascular $174,838.00 for this 30 minute vein x-ray ! Are you joking? I guess since Az. Vein closed my account and told me over the phone that my portion of the bill was $0 I would shut up. They don't even have the decency to send me the itemized bill that I asked for months ago so I can see how they came to this insane amount of money! The funny thing is they actually thought i would be back to have my veins taken care of after they received $174,838.15 out of my insurance company! Think again I rather suffer with varicose veins then see them get one more cent out of my insurance!
We all pay for this one way or another though higher premiums, deductibles and who knows how many people get denied every year for for procedures! Az Vein and Vascular center is part of the health care cost problem in this country!! Not recommended!!!!
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