Comments on: LabCorp Denies Blood Test for Heart Attack Patient Due to $7 Debt

By: olta

olta — Sun, 26 Sep 2010 18:46:32 +0000

I am a home health rn and i have to deal with labcorp almost all the time.I couldnt believe that they turned down my patients blood sample that i had collected just because there was the policy number of the insurance missing.All the other information was there,ssn,adress,PCP,doctors orders,age,DOB,etc….and they turned it down just because i asked them where should i turn this in?one day before they just told me put it at the blue box…..the next day all of the sudden the other employee just turned down my patients blood sample….And here i am …with the blood samples in my car,waiting to be run STAT…in a florida temperature of 91…but this is not enough…..i got back in the car and told my new colleague that i was training to go back in and turn the samples….she did….they accepted them without no problem…….I did not understand what the reason was for the first time to be denied?..The labcorp employee was too busy Facebooking and when i went in and asked her where to put my samples,apparently i disturbed her so she chose to deny them….WHAT A SHAME….PEOPLE LIKE THE ONES THAT WORK AT LABCORP ARE A SHAME AND DISGRACE FOR THE HEALTHCARE…..YOU CANNOT PLAY WITH SOMEONES LIFE…YOU CANNOT….EVEN GOD DOESNT!!!……..SHAME ON YOU……

By: MaryJane

MaryJane — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 20:40:30 +0000

Took my child to the doctor on Monday, referred to Labcorp for test. They denied doing the test today, due to a past due balance they claim is on our account from some previous years ago. I did not have the $ 18 dollars to pay today. Our new insurance BCBS covers 100% of lab, yet they insisted that unless I pay the balance he could not have his blood drawn. I asked for the manager to have the restriction waived since this visit is covered 100% but got the run around, manager not there, no none has a number for a director. I don’t understand how some billing person or admin can make such denial against a person’s health condition. We need to file a class action suit against this Labcorp.

By: sales employee

sales employee — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:01:50 +0000

Welcome to Lab Corp I was offered a job to work for them after they bought my company but I told them no thank you. You should have seen the salary they offered me I show people and all they can say are you stupid or what. All I can say is I only work for companies that work with patients and the Md’s to provide good quality low costs testing.Needless to say I kept my client base with me and it costing Lab Corp a pretty penny everytime one of MY patients comes to my lab to get a blood drawn and no we don’t ask for prepayment. I’m sure as we grow this company Lab Corp will strike out its ugly fangs and offer a huge amount of money to buy it because that is the only way it can grow.

By: Rita

Rita — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 01:45:00 +0000

This is TRUE. It happened to my husband and my sister. My sisters bill was 11.00! From another state to boot and she had insurance and never received a bill for it. My husband was 23.00 dollars and he choose to dispute it. That is the amount he was disputing from the last tests that were run on him.
I work in a doctors office and MANY of our patients are medicaid and will come back to our office due to LAB CORP refusing to draw their blood because of PENNIES. We tell them to go use the hospitals. I mean it probably goes through lab corp anyway around but at least they will get the blood drawn then at a hospital.
In our office we do a ton of urine drug screens. We no longer use LAB CORP to run them through. We use AMERTOX. The AMERTOX rep told us point blank that their screens are 500.00 dollars less. They discount customers 100 percent if they can not afford the bill. LAB CORP? You can’t even set up payment arrangements! I felt awful for a patient we did a drug screen on and it cost her over 700.00. Her insurance wouldn’t cover it, said it wasn’t a necessary test. To our office it is when it is chronic pain we deal with and the patients takes narcotics. We have a bad drug problem in this country and we are doing the responsable thing by drug testing to make sure the patient IS taking the medication as prescribed AND NOT SELLING IT ON THE STREETS. This poor woman lost getting a home due to LAB CORP and that 700.00 dollar bill they would not accept payments on. It went on her credit rating.

LAB CORP is the WORST company in the world. I wish there was other labs out there, but LAB CORP OF AMERICA reins in this country.

This company needs buck down and step or two. Or should I say SHUT DOWN?

By: loumtx

loumtx — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 23:59:29 +0000

I have UHC insurance and I went to a new center yesterday and they collected the labs. They have my group and ID number and I got a call from LabCorp today that they will not do the labs without my social security number. I have had my identity stolen and medical establishments were the only places that
have the number. Maybe Dave and the boys need a new set of wheels so they are going to charge it to me.

Yes we need reform from crap like this. They can send it to another lab for all I care. If we stop using these companies they will go out of business. Just say NO!

By: Compassionate phlebotomist

Compassionate phlebotomist — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 11:30:09 +0000

We are employees of Labcorp and we appologize for your inconvience, and we truly hate that we are now forced to turn patients away for non payment. Apparently we are supposed to have no heart or compassion for our patients. I assure you that the phlebotomist are only doing this because they are forced to or find another job, which as you know in today’s economy is not an easy task. Thank you for your research on Dave King, this was shocking considering they cut our raises in half. But please believe that your phlebotomist do care about their patients, but we can’t afford to walk off our jobs, we would if we made as much as Dave!!!!!!

By: Cata

Cata — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 03:00:03 +0000

i just read my father this story. i have lupus and he has diabtes, i hope we won’t come to this same kind of fate if either of us has a heart attack.

this is so infuriating because not only is nothing fixed presently but nothing will because lining their own pockets is better than stopping the needless killing of lives. damn it.

By: Sid Pevear

Sid Pevear — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 22:29:15 +0000

LabCorp are bloodsuckers! I had a blood test done for HCV viral load done by them. They did not bill the insurance in a timely fashion. I dropped the insurance company I had and went with another. In the interim LabCorp decided, after I left, to bill this test 3 months after the test. Needless to say the insurance denied the claim as being to late so they tried to make me pay. I said no I will not pay for your negligence. I still have that bill on my credit with a letter attached from me explaining why I refuse to pay them. It has not affected my credit. These people are a prime example of how screwed up medical coverage is in this country!

By: Joe

Joe — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:40:34 +0000

I’m at a loss for words. If things are this bad not only do we need health care reform we also need moral reform.

By: Michael Eckert

Michael Eckert — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:35:17 +0000

Apparently we can’t get medical attention until the doctors have rifled through our pockets.