Consumer complaint received 2020-01-30
Company: HCFS Healthcare Financial Services of TeamHealth
State: FL
Product: Credit reporting, credit repair services, or other personal consumer reports
Sub-product: Credit reporting
Issue: Problem with a credit reporting company's investigation into an existing problem
Sub-issue: Their investigation did not fix an error on your report

Complaint:
To Whom It May Concern : Please be advised THIS IS MY SECOND TIME contacting this company and my issue has not been resolved. I have requested validation { not verification } of an item reported to you by the above original creditor/collection agency. I have received a response that clearly violates my rights according to HIPAA. You claimed to have contacted the original creditor to validated my debt and they responded via US mail in ONE DAY?! Stop the lies! These ungraceful deceiving practices will be documented. 

This company did NOT provide me a HIPAA release that releases my medical information to them, therefore by providing such information they are in VIOLATION of my HIPAA rights. 

The court has ruled that in Hinkle v. Midland Credit Management , Inc., that during a dispute and subsequent investigation with the original creditor, collector or a credit bureau, that the original creditor or collector, must provide account-level documentation that would hold up when presented to a jury. That means an original contract or similar proof. To this end, I am demanding an itemized bill to include but not limited to : The diagnosis and procedure performed that I am being billed for, Dates of said procedure, Cost of any medication you may have provided, Cost of any medical devices you may have provided, Office Visits, Consultations, Hospital Visits, Misc. 
As I am not the person who owes this bill, I am aware that providing the information requested may lead to third party disclosure : a HIPAA violation. That would be your problem and not mines, as a consumer. And per the FCRA and FCPA, I am not required to complete a police report since the burden to prove the debt is on you. 
In addition, a provision of the FACTA regulations is the Notice of Negative Information provision, covered in section 623 ( A ) ( 7 ).

I have never received notification that this had been or was going to be listed with a credit reporting agency. FACTA ( Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act ) requires  creditors, including doctors and hospitals, to give the consumer a warning notice, so the matter can be addressed before a negative item such as this is reported in error. 
I am also requesting a copy of your in-house procedures that enable you to avoid the problems that lead to improper identification of consumers and the subsequent misreporting to the credit bureaus. 
In lieu of supplying the information Im demanding, you can simply stop all collection activity, including but not limited to removing this item from all credit bureaus to which it has been reported. If this is not done within 30 days of receipt of this I will proceed to exercise all my legal rights, including litigation, to protect my good name.

Company public response: Company has responded to the consumer and the CFPB and chooses not to provide a public response
Company response to consumer: Closed with explanation