Complaint / Review
Anesthesia Specialists Of Oc Gihan G George, Md
Threatening letters & calls to refer our case to a collection agency

The above named Anesthesia specialist rendered service while my wife was delivering our baby boy at Anaheim Memorial Hospital in Jan-08. Our PPO insurance which was given to hospital while pre-registration process has taken care of all medical bills except the one from this Specialists, after our co-pay as required.

The charges from Dr. Gihan was not paid by insurance company because they were not having registration under panel with our insurance company. Now, it seems that there was a change in specialists at Anaheim Memorial Hospital and the new specialist for Anesthesia was not registred under panel of our Insurance company, which is widely known and accepted insurance company. My wife was alone there in hospital when the staff present decided to call this specialists to give anesthesia to the patient. She was not informed that our insurance does not cover the services by this specialists. Moreover, she was not in position also to make a decision in this regard, nor the staff present at hospital were able to offer a choice as they have to use service of the consultant available.

We were not aware of this problem untill we received a bill from respected Dr GIhan G George for an amount of $1,520. We called up them, the hospital and our insurance company and come to know that there are several such incidents happend during those days because the Specialist was not registered under panel with the insurance company. We understand that they did the registration under panel after the date of treatment to my wife. We requested our insurance company to accept their claim and also explained the Dr of our financial situation and the insurance company has paid substantial amount of it, now pending is $229.52 as per their statement.

The specialists office is keep on sending us reminders and calls to pay $229.52 failing which they will refer our case to a collection agency. We feel that had if they have taken care of the insurance requirements full payment was supposed to be paid by our insurance. We do not have so much resources so that we easily decide to pay this. Currently we are not having any health insurance for us.

I wish to know what are the possibility in this situation? Are they morally right in threatening us for a debt collection agency? Any guidence will help.

Thanks