cunninglinquist

I gave my apartment complex notice this week. It seemed to lift a burden from me, one was that I finally committed to it and the other one was another venture into the unknown. I am moving to a place that I have never seen and have to rely on a friends opinion of it.
I also had to teach a physicians billing office some facts of life. I had an outpatient procedure done in October, and got my bill in early December, sent to the wrong address and no explanation of the charges. I asked them to correct my address and please provide me with a breakdown of the charges, and with it I send a small payment. January the address was still wrong, and no explanation. I did the same thing. February was a repeat of January. In late February the finally got my address correct but were bound and determined to ingnore me. I sent them a certified letter with my payment asking for the breakdown of the bill and advising them that this would be my last payment until I got a complete bill.
I had this illness 3 times before and never did treatment cost more than $175, this time it was $288.
They got my request on March 3 and as of today they have bothered to comply with my Federally required bill. They sent me a notification that by Colorado law they were turning me over to their collection agency, and I had 30 days to pay or else.
I had enough, I tried calling them, 9 times no answer, I sent them 2 certified letters with no response, today I got ugly. I turned in the billing agency to the state of Colorado and the doctor to the medical review board for overbilling and demanding I take several thousands of dollars of useless tests with I had to refuse 3 times.
I did get someone at the collection agency and he was a real jackass. He told me that I had no rights, no matter what I sent the billing center, they were under no obligation to comply with a frivolous request. Then he really screwed up he called me a deadbeat. I said thank you.
He was stunned, he said I must be really stupid because I did not know what a deadbeat was. I said I most certainly did, and that by saying that he broke the Federal law on collections, and that our conversation was being monitored by my attorney and his secretary had taken it down word for word.
He still maintained that I was a deadbeat and I could do nothing to him, my attorney said that he really liked dealing with people who think they are above the law. The he went on to tell him the penalties of what his action were going to cost him and the company he worked for. Let's see I owe the doctor $188, the court costs, penalties and lawyers fees should run about $2000. I felt good about it, I hate bill collectors who think we are all stupid.