Business ProfileforEast Coast Orthotic & Prosthetic Corp.

I was seeing an orthopedist at a hospital in ***, after a wrist fracture. I had a cast on for six weeks, and once the cast came off, the doctor told me that I had the option for a wrist splint... until such time as I felt more confident/secure regarding my wrist recovery.My doctor's ****** described the splint they could provide as being 'custom-fitted'. I'm not sure where the disconnect came from...if it were from my doctor's ******, or if it were from the East Coast 'rep', who apparently works in tandem with my doctor's ******.... But all I know is this much: there was NOTHING 'custom-fitted' about the splint. When the East Coast rep entered the room I was in, she literally took the splint OUT OF A BOX. It was only once I left the hospital and had a bit more time with the splint that I realized.... it was NOT comfortable on my still-tender wrist. The splint not only hard a hard plastic brace to support the underside of my forearm and wrist but.... it also had hard plastic SIDES that were pressing against my still-bruised wrist.Even though my wrist injury fell under ********* Comp, for some reason East Coast was not initially aware of this, and so they sent a bill directly to me. The charge for this supposedly 'custom-fitted' wrist brace?? $92. That's Ninety-Two Dollars. That is CRIMINAL! What a total scam. But not surprising to me one iota, as shortly after I received the brace and realized how uncomfortable it was...and that there was nothing 'custom-fitted' about it at all...and that the East Coast rep 'conveniently' works IN TANDEM with the hospital, it is a classic ** hospital-setting type racket....where one hand washes the other, so to speak.East Coast should be ashamed of themselves, for trying to charge someone $92 for something that probably cost them $15 to purchase wholesale.