Patients Report Unfair Medical Billing Practices in California

Consumers have claimed that in recent years, medical companies may have been charging insured consumers more than uninsured consumers for the same drugs and services.

Often, consumers report that the copay they paid was more than what uninsured consumers paid — some consumers reported paying over ten times the price charged to uninsured consumers. In other cases, consumers report paying a deductible that was higher than expected for a medical procedure.

Besides drugs, insured consumers report being overcharged for a range of medical procedures. If you have a PPO and live in California, you may have been subjected to unfair medical billing practices by being overcharged for:

• genetic prenatal testing
• urinalysis
• lab work
• blood work
• infusions
• MRIs
• CT scans
• other procedures

Consumers report that in some cases, when they were billed for a medical procedure, they were charged a deductible that was higher than expected.

Consumers claim that retail pharmacies like Rite Aid have overcharged insured consumers for prescription drugs by charging insured consumers a copay higher than the price paid by uninsured consumers. For example, an insured person may be charged a $15 copay for a prescription mediation sold to uninsured patients for $1.50.

In other cases, consumers report that they were charged excessive drug markups for drugs without a copay. One pharmacist reported that insured consumers were charged $270 for a nausea drug that was sold to uninsured consumers for $15.

If you have a PPO in California, contacting an experienced insurance drug prices lawyer can help you determine if you have a legal claim. If you have a PPO in California but do not know if you have been overcharged, you may still qualify to participate in a lawsuit — a lawyer can help determine if you have, in fact, been overcharged for a drug, medical procedure, or service.

Allegedly, the problem of insured patients being subjected to unfair medical billing practices occurs not only in the case of retail pharmacies, but with other medical companies. Some consumers report being overcharged by medical companies that support services provided by doctors, such as labs that do medical testing. In one case, a consumer who had a PPO insurance plan reported being charged $700 for a biopsy of a mole. He had to pay this amount out of pocket if his deductible had not yet been met. He then discovered that an uninsured patient would be charge only $40 for the same procedure.

If you have a PPO (preferred provider) insurance plan and live in California and you have been overcharged for drugs and services in the last three years, you may have a legal claim. Joining a California PPO unfair medical billing practices lawsuit investigation could help you receive compensation for financial injury caused by the overcharges to your medications and medical services. You can stand up to the trend of companies overcharging consumers for drugs and services that should cost far less.

Join a Free Unfair Medical Billing Class Action Lawsuit Investigation

If you have a PPO insurance plan in California and have (i) paid a co-pay for generic prescription drugs at Rite Aid, or another retail pharmacy; or (ii) paid a higher-than-expected deductible for a covered medical procedure, you may be qualified to participate in this class action investigation.

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