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This is the third time I am saying to you, “I don’t believe I owe you $187.36 for a doctor to ask if I had
anything to eat or drink and my reply of “I had a cup of black coffee.”
I have a letter from Doctor D’Avanzo which states in part “CLEAR LIQUIDS ALLOWED: Water, tea,
coffee (without any milk or milk products)
I have two statements of Medicare paying over $550.0 to Garden City Hospital and Doctor D’Avanzo. One
of the summary of claim was “O Anest, low intestine scope $568.40 of which Medicare paid $133.11 and
$26.62 was in the “You May Be Billed column. I did not receive a statement for that amount.
What was this for? General insensibility to pain with or without the loss of consciousness,
induced by an anesthetic.
Note: I have a letter from Doctor D’Avanzo – so I don’t feel it was my fault I had that one-cup of black
coffee.
I have and enclosing with this letter, a letter from Garden City Hospital “addressed to “Patient or
Designated Representative signed by me Clifford Rayford. The Garden City “Medical Professional with a
signature of L. Bascomb RN” with SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS D’Avanzo’s office will contact you to
reschedule to reschedule your exam” No one has called to reschedule the exam.
I checked with my primary doctor where my health record is kept. There is a report from Doctor D’Avanzo
office stating something was done, a test or exam, I want Doctor D’Avanzo report removed from my health
record because it is false, no test or exam was done on my body on March 3, 2009.
The reason I am so against paying the $187.36 is because it is 31.7 percent of my monthly pension and I
still have not had the colonoscopy procedure.
Garden City Hospital billing department staff have been very unemotional in their attempt to make me
pay. At age 78, I may end up at some hospital if the present attempt to collect continues.
Clifford Rayford