I want to alert everyone to a practice that Palm Drive Hospital has decided to implement that could affect you financially without your knowledge. As of 1/1/2011, office visits to PPO doctors at Palm Drive Medical Centers will be billed with the hospital's tax id# which means your visits will be subject to your deductible (instead of being charged your office visit co-pay) and they will tack on an additional $120 "facility fee" for you to walk in the door of the doctor's office. I have written a letter to Palm Drive and they are doing nothing to remedy this preposterous situation. I have changed doctors and will have nothing to do with Palm Drive Hospital or Medical Centers any more. People are going to be leaving these doctors' practices in droves. Who will pay these extra fees knowingly?? If anyone has any advice on this, I would be grateful.