Business ProfileforUC San Diego Health

On 10/12/23 I had an appointment to establish care with *******************************. He ordered blood tests and I had the blood drawn that day at his office. Most of those blood tests were ordered for standard preventive screening purposes. UCSD billed all of the blood tests to my insurance as diagnostic rather than preventive. That improper billing resulted in the insurance determining that I owed a co-pay for the tests. The insurance would have paid for most of the tests in full if they had been billed correctly as preventive. UCSD's billing department told me that all blood tests ordered at an appointment to establish care are billed as diagnostic. This is improper billing; a blood test is not diagnostic solely because I haven't seen the doctor before. UCSD's billing department told me if I had the doctor add an addendum to the visit saying the tests were ordered for preventive screening, they could re-bill the tests to the insurance as preventive. I asked the doctor add this addendum. He wrote: "The above tests were ordered for standard preventive screening purposes and are not diagnostic." UCSD's billing department told me they would resubmit the insurance claim. Several months later they have now put the charges for the blood tests back on my account without having resubmitted the claim to the insurance. At this point, after 7 months of trying to get UCSD to bill the insurance correctly, I would like them to waive the remaining charges of $126.33 that are on my account for these blood tests.