180K bill for simple foot procedure sparks payment fight

NewsBot · Mar 16, 2014

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180K bill for simple foot procedure sparks payment fight

A Park Avenue podiatrist billed $178,900 to fix two crooked toes, office procedures that lasted less than an hour.

Amazingly, insurance giant United Healthcare/Oxford paid most of the bill, cutting a check earlier this month for $175,098.80.

Instead of sending the check to Suzanne Levine, a foot fixer with a roster of celebrity clients, United Healthcare mailed it to the shocked patient. And Levine’s office has been frantically trying to collect the money.
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Kevin Kirby · Mar 16, 2014

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Unbelievable!:mad::butcher::bang:

bob · Mar 16, 2014

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It's amazing what people pay for things. Take Wayne Rooney for instance. Please.

NewsBot · Mar 23, 2014

When confronted by The Post, Levine’s office manager said the claim had been sent to United Healthcare by mistake and that she later sent a revised claim.

But a United Healthcare spokesman said the company had received no such corrected claim. After learning of the payment from The Post, the insurer said it was stopping payment on the check, calling the charges “beyond egregious.” The company launched an investigation.

Neither Levine nor her spokesman responded to requests for comment.
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