I wonder why people don't answer their phones when it's a number they don't recognize? Oh wait, I do know. Scam artists are constantly trying to STEAL PEOPLE'S MONEY. So you aren't one of them? Forgive me for not treating you like you are some kind of humanitarian. Your a bill collector. Big surprise people aren't happy to hear from you. GET OVER IT AND GET A NEW JOB IF YOU CAN'T HANDLE IT. Instead of posting several long and pointless paragraphs about crap no one wants to hear, why don't you go check out the want ads and get a job that doesn't deal with the public. I pay my bills, I work for a living, and I don't collect welfare or food stamps. I have blue cross blue shield through my job, and I don't go to the ER unless I absolutely have to, because guess what? The ER is a huge pain in the a**! Stop judging people you don't know anything about and stop ranting about this topic, because you obviously know very little about the subject. Just wait until someone steals your identity and steals money from your bank account. And you shouldn't look down on people who are on welfare, there are those who genuinely need it, and there are those who only have it temporarily. You make me sick.

Original Business Start Date: January 2005
Principal: Mr. Steve Walters, Vice President
Customer Contact: Mr. Steve Walters, Vice President - (866) 249-2094
Type Of Business: Collection Agencies
BBB Accreditation: This organization is a BBB Accredited Business.
Additional DBA Names: Accretive Health
Incorporated: January 2005, DE
Entity: Partnership
Employees: 170

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MN attorney general complaint April 2012

Accretive listed ?Medical Financial Solutions? as an assumed name according to the MN attorney general complaint April 2012, page 1.

http://www.ag.state.mn.us/PDF/PressReleases/ComplianceReview/Vol.%205.pdf

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF MINNESOTA LAWSUIT

http://www.ag.state.mn.us/PDF/Consumer/AccretiveHealth20120119.pdf

Accretive seeks dismissal of suit over lost laptop, health records

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Accretive Health Debt Collector Defends Embedding Employees Inside Hospitals

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Debt Collector Is Faulted for Tough Tactics in Hospitals

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Accretive Health's collection tactics fuel hospital outsourcing debate

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ATTORNEY GENERAL SWANSON SUES ACCRETIVE HEALTH FOR PATIENT PRIVACY VIOLATIONS, as of 1/19/2012

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Accretive is licensed as a debt collection agency in Minnesota.  Last year it raised over $100 million in a public securities offering.  As noted above, Accretive Health is a portfolio company of Accretive, LLC, a Wall Street private equity fund with a controversial history in Minnesota relating to the arbitration and collection of consumer debts.  In 2009 the Minnesota Attorney General?s Office sued the National Arbitration Forum?the nation?s largest consumer credit arbitration company?for telling consumers and courts that it independently and neutrally decided consumer credit cases when, in fact, it was affiliated with a New York private equity fund that owned the major debt collection enterprise that filed cases with the Forum.  That equity fund was Accretive, LLC, and it set up the enterprise in which it simultaneously took control of the nation?s largest debt collection enterprise and became affiliated with the Forum.  In the wake of the lawsuit, the National Arbitration Forum was banned from arbitrating consumer credit disputes, and the debt collector owned by Accretive, LLC shut down.  Accretive, LLC (the master equity fund), however, survived, and Accretive Health is one of its portfolio companies.

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More Lawsuits

Norberg v. Medical Financial Solutions

Pasted from <http://dockets.justia.com/docket/michigan/miwdce/1:2011cv00346/66117/>


Blose v. Medical Financial Solutions et al

Pasted from <http://dockets.justia.com/docket/vermont/vtdce/2:2010cv00271/19699/>

Colbert v. Medical Financial Solutions

Pasted from <http://dockets.justia.com/docket/michigan/miwdce/1:2010cv00762/63680/>

Crump v. Medical Financial Solutions

Pasted from <http://dockets.justia.com/docket/michigan/miwdce/1:2010cv00656/63360/>

I got a call from this number and they didnt leave a message. it was such a weird number that I went and looked it up online. Many people are saying it's a scam. It comes  from Michigan trying to collect money for unpaid bills for  St. John's hospital. I am in the St. John's network here in Michigan, and I have a bill they keep sending me for $100. I have very good insurance (with this hospital) and a secondary. Either they did not bill correctly or they made it up, in which it would therefore be a scam like most people are saying.  I have gotten bills in the past (from a different hospital) for phantom tests (tests that I never had.) But my insurance at the time paid for it all! These doctors saw how great my insurance was and took them for all they could!!! And I am not talking about anything as close to $100, but hundreds!! Anyway, with this bill from St. johns I owe nothing. They keep sending me bills in the mail and I have sent countless letters to them. But they won't stop. I'd GLADLY talk to them if I could get a live person, but from what I hear, you don't get one. How strange is that?? Makes no sense to me at all. I've also read people referring to them as an evil collection agency...I would say that is definitely true.

Called today, looking for me, asked if I had a middle initial "r", said no even though I do, asked if I live at """""""" and I said no, even though I do. They said sorry and hung up.

MY NAME IS GEORGE HAVENGA, MFS TAKEN MONEY FROM MY BANK ACCOUNT AND I WANT TO KNOW WHAT COMPANY GIVES YOU PREMISSION TO GO INTO MY BANK ACCOUNT?

WILL YOOU PLEASE ASSIT ME!

CONTACT NR 0847041816/ 0832074310

People used to answer their phones, have class, common sense and motivation. Those days are long since past. I'm a debt collector, a college student with bills to pay and a generally upstanding individual. I would like to address a few common misconceptions:
1. You don't have to go to a hospital to have a hospital bill.
When you go to your family doctor and he draws any sort of test, you are safe to assume that his private practice has tens of millions of dollars of state of the art equipment in the basement that can run every test imaginable; this is not unrealistic or prohibitively expensive. Also make sure to assume that your family doctor is a specialist in every symptom you present.

Doctors send lab samples to local hospital regularly, it happens, you and your insurance get to pay for it. If your doctor doesn't tell you about it, you should speak with him.

I have insurance, ER visits and plastic surgery are FREE!
The emergency room is the perfect place to make sure that mole on your shoulder is benign and to make sure that pimple isn't skin cancer. You have medicare and unemployment, whats a few grand extra to tax payers? Those a**holes have the audacity to look for jobs while the rest of us are forced to subsist on a mere twelve-hundred dollars a month for waking up at the crack of noon and only eating the plebeian food that food stamps will pay for. Not only do I have insurance/medicaid/care, but that document I wiped my a** with stating that it is MY responsibility to make sure that MY employer/neighbors pay my bills is too much trouble. I like my things to be not just free but WORRY FREE! IMA "MERICAN!
Even if you have another party to cover your balances, YOU, yes you, are responsible to make sure that you pay or they pay everything they should. Somebody pays (this is not a threat or a joke, unless you regularly steal groceries, if you have food stamps this rule applies as well)

I AM IDENTITY THEFTING YOU!!!

Even though the hospital has sent a collection agency my doctors name, the date I visited my doctor, the services my doctor provided, my social security number, date of birth, phone number, my work number, my emergency contacts and any notes they may have on file for me... This is fraudulent. You are calling from a Better Business Bureau accredited number and business but it is completely appropriate to cuss you and your grandmother out, issue death threats and hold you personally responsible for my bills. You, you sir/madam caused me to go to the hospital and lead me to believe that medical care would be free.

If you believe something is fraudulent, take 90 seconds, check the BBB or other reputable resources and find out. Now I understand that this will not happen, but I've found a lamp and rub it nightly, using all of my wishes at once hoping that I might find an individual who is honest, decent and reasonable.

While you should never take anyone asking for your credit card information at their word, you should respect yourself and others by showing the common decency to make an informed decision.

I had a long day at work, I helped more than one person save more than a thousand dollars with little more than a 'f*** you' and an inapplicable racial slur as a response. Forgive my rant, stand up for your rights, understand that the person you are speaking with did not generate you balance and at the very least treat them as if they were someone that you know, even if you hate that individual.

I got a call from this number today.  I don't answer my phone unless I know who is calling, so I let it go to voicemail.  A few minutes later I checked my voicemail and all I heard was horrible elevator/on-hold music.  Seriously! Do these companies not realize how much further they would get if a real person called instead of a machine.

If you have no outstanding debts you should call this back.  They had my number for someone else.  Notmally I would not respond, but after reading this column I thought I should, as I had also been receiving erroneous billing calls from my hospital.

they have called three times and will not leave a message.  I will not answer the phone when they call and want to know how they got my cell phone number.  I think it is total crap that they have my cell number.

i get the same mfs message, it a doctors bill, that you havent paid.  they are collecting agent for that hospital/ doctor.  if you dont owe anything call them back, if you then you know who they are.

These people call from 2 to 3 times a day...( while I'm at work )

Leave's a recorded message... This is MFS, this is a time sensitive call.
But they keep calling...for months...

I have been getting this message lately and am wondering who the heck it is as well. Thanks for clearing it up!

They call and ask for Maraya. When my response is I am not Meraya they do not want to talk to me anymore. Asked them to stop calling me, and take my phone off the list, does not help. I am tired of them.

I keep getting calls from this number. They are looking for someone else. I've told them I'm not the person they're looking for and they respond by saying they're a debt collection agency so they're used to people lying about who they are. I have no idea how they got my cell number. I've told them my name, but I am not about to give them my social security number or any other personally identifiable information to prove who I am. For all I know, they may be posing as a debt collection agency in an identity theft attempt.

They call from several local numbers as well as the toll free number referenced on this site and 866-401-5421.

In my opinion, calling me repeatedly for someone else's debt is harassment. If a lot of people are getting these calls when they don't owe money, I'm thinking class action suit. Anybody with me?

If you didnt pay a hospital bill, these guys collect for hospitals.  That time sensitive message from MFS is a demand to make a payment arrangement

Keep calling. Message left says: " This is MFS calling with a time sensitive call, please call us back at 899-383-9956", it repeats twice and hangs up.

MFS = Medical Financial Solutions

Medical Financial Solutions
10655 Roselle St Ste 204
San Diego, CA 92121-1557
Phone: (858) 566-3061

This number called me twice today and will not leave a message. It's really starting to piss me off. I guess next time they call I'll answer and b***h them out for having my number (which is on the Do Not Call list)...

People used to answer their phones, have class, common sense and motivation. Those days are long since past. I'm a debt collector, a college student with bills to pay and a generally upstanding individual. I would like to address a few common misconceptions:
1. You don't have to go to a hospital to have a hospital bill.
When you go to your family doctor and he draws any sort of test, you are safe to assume that his private practice has tens of millions of dollars of state of the art equipment in the basement that can run every test imaginable; this is not unrealistic or prohibitively expensive. Also make sure to assume that your family doctor is a specialist in every symptom you present.

Doctors send lab samples to local hospital regularly, it happens, you and your insurance get to pay for it. If your doctor doesn't tell you about it, you should speak with him.

I have insurance, ER visits and plastic surgery are FREE!
The emergency room is the perfect place to make sure that mole on your shoulder is benign and to make sure that pimple isn't skin cancer. You have medicare and unemployment, whats a few grand extra to tax payers? Those a***oles have the audacity to look for jobs while the rest of us are forced to subsist on a mere twelve-hundred dollars a month for waking up at the crack of noon and only eating the plebeian food that food stamps will pay for. Not only do I have insurance/medicaid/care, but that document I wiped my a** with stating that it is MY responsibility to make sure that MY employer/neighbors pay my bills is too much trouble. I like my things to be not just free but WORRY FREE! IMA "MERICAN!
Even if you have another party to cover your balances, YOU, yes you, are responsible to make sure that you pay or they pay everything they should. Somebody pays (this is not a threat or a joke, unless you regularly steal groceries, if you have food stamps this rule applies as well)

I AM IDENTITY THEFTING YOU!!!

Even though the hospital has sent a collection agency my doctors name, the date I visited my doctor, the services my doctor provided, my social security number, date of birth, phone number, my work number, my emergency contacts and any notes they may have on file for me... This is fraudulent. You are calling from a Better Business Bureau accredited number and business but it is completely appropriate to cuss you and your grandmother out, issue death threats and hold you personally responsible for my bills. You, you sir/madam caused me to go to the hospital and lead me to believe that medical care would be free.

If you believe something is fraudulent, take 90 seconds, check the BBB or other reputable resources and find out. Now I understand that this will not happen, but I've found a lamp and rub it nightly, using all of my wishes at once hoping that I might find an individual who is honest, decent and reasonable.

While you should never take anyone asking for your credit card information at their word, you should respect yourself and others by showing the common decency to make an informed decision.

I had a long day at work, I helped more than one person save more than a thousand dollars with little more than a 'f*** you' and an inapplicable racial slur as a response. Forgive my rant, stand up for your rights, understand that the person you are speaking with did not generate you balance and at the very least treat them as if they were someone that you know, even if you hate that individual.

This number called me twice today and will not leave a message. It's really starting to piss me off. I guess next time they call I'll answer and bi*** them out for having my number (which is on the Do Not Call list)...