Location: Michigan
I am currently in physical therapy school. Our summer semester is 10 weeks long. At the end of week 7, they added almost $3k in lab fees with no notice. The only reason the student found out was because a friend and I went to ask about the lab fees for our NEXT semester and then spread by word of mouth. On top of this, I sent a message to a faculty member (who has dealt with all of the financial questions thus far) regarding the lack of lab fees on our accounts because I didn’t want to pay later in the semester. I never got a response and assumed all billing was correct. They have a guideline posted online by year, not semester, if it matters. They’re claiming this was a coding error, but I feel like I shouldn’t be held responsible for this oversight when I tried bringing attention to it before the semester started. Just curious if there is any legal or regulatory violations here. TIA