866-434-3674

om 11/29, left on my answering machine; Automated messaage stating a name that was inaudible had reported paying me money, and asked if I would like a copy of the IRS w-9 or TRPN(?)  Left no number or name for callback,

I got the same vague call.  They might be scammers trying to get you to give them personal info? -- see this link...http://www.naswnyc.org/Private%20practice%20committee/specialalert.html

I couldn't tell what the heck they were saying! Sounds like a scam.

For the record... I recieved a phone message on 2/15/08 from a robo voice claiming that I recieved payments from them that required them to send me a w9, and asking me to press 1 to get a TRPN provider participation agreement form...somethin like that...  Fortunately it was just a voice mail. Finding this web-site is great!  As now I know that I need not stress about the robo-voice voice mail.   Thanks.

I got the same call a few minutes ago! It said someone was using my "services' and the deal about an IRS form.  When I called the number, it stated they would remove my fax number.  I think it is a scam.

I got the same call just a few minutes ago.  It is a scam. If you go to the web site listed above, it is identical to the message that was left on my answering machine.

I've received this call two times-and both times the message seems to start in the middle of what they are saying.  I caught the TRPN and thought I'd google on it.  Glad to find these comments....

I keep getting a call from this number 866.434.3674 telling me that I have received payments from a provider and need to request a TRPN and W9 statement for the IRS, i pressed one and it asked for a fax number, i hung up and called the number back and a answer that it is a batch fax number and to enter my fax number to have it removed from the batch, whatever all that means.

definitely a scam

Found on 800notes.com about this United Health Care Telemarketer, TPRN : don't know who to thank for the original post below, sorry.

Special Alert For Private Practice Members - Three Rivers
(October 2007)

Earlier in the year, NASW-NYC began receiving complaints from its members in private practice about solicitations from Three Rivers Provider Network (TRPN, www.trpnppo.com),  to elicit confidential information from them. After further investigation we also learned that members of the Medical Society of the State of New York were also experiencing the same concerns.  With input from NASW-NYC’s Private Practice Committee, the Chapter advocated and sent letters to the offices of NYS Attorney General Andrew Cuomo and Mr. Eric R. Dinallo, Superintendent for the New York State Insurance Department, requesting a review of the business practices of Three Rivers Provider Network and the insurance companies it represents, including United Healthcare, among others.



The letter expressed that our members have complained that they have received multiple “robo-call” telephone messages from TRPN asking for providers to share their IRS tax identification number and W9 along with other information. The Chapter communicated that members received as many as ten or twenty such messages, sometimes on a daily basis, which members found to be vague and, in some cases, intimidating, as it referred to IRS requirements. In addition, when some members responded by calling the number provided, the only option given was to submit their fax number; there was no opportunity to speak with a TRPN representative for information or clarification. There was no indication of who TRPN represented in neither the original robo-call nor the second message.  Most clinicians had never before heard of TRPN and had no prior dealings with them; TRPN did not provide any indication of what insurance companies they were representing in this transaction.



Some clinicians, misled by the original robo-call and the first paragraphs of the form to believe that in completing the form they were providing TRPN with a tax ID number to comply with IRS requirements, were later surprised to discover that in completing the form they had been enrolled to accept reduced fees for their services, which had not been what TRPN originally emphasized in their telephone robo-call. It appears that TRPN  misled these clinicians into signing a managed care contract.



When these clinicians discovered what had happened and found a way to contact TRPN, they were told that they must wait 90 days in order to be released from this contract, and, in the meantime, that they must accept the reduced insurance reimbursement. One clinician, who threatened to engage a lawyer, was immediately released from the contract; however, not everyone has this option.

In its letter, NASW-NYC further expressed that the TRPN robo-call message and the subsequent letter from TRPN was confusing and resulted in clinicians feeling lured into unwittingly accepting a reduced fee for their services, and then making it unnecessarily difficult for them to withdraw from this arrangement. NASW-NYC called upon the Attorney General’s Office and the NYS Insurance Department to take action to prevent TRPN and the insurance companies that they represent from continuing to solicit clinicians in this manner, to promptly release any clinicians who request to be released from the contract signed and to reimburse any clinicians who request reimbursement for the reduced insurance payments that they were paid.

Since sending the letters, NASW-NYC has received responses from the NYS Attorney General indicating that they would be beginning a review with Three Rivers and from the State Insurance Department indicating that they would investigate the case.  The Chapter will keep its membership updated as any new information becomes available.
Caller: TRPN

Want to thank others for their input above....Yep message is garbled and unclear....Received their calls throughout fall 2007 and winter 2008.  Again today TRPN called and left a VM.

Sometimes they call multiple times a day.  The robo recording states something about "insurance carriers using our IRS number in 2007".... blah blah blah...

Does anyone know how to best reach the NYS Attorney General the State nsurance Department to give them more instances of being called by TRPN?

I just received an identical robo-message today. They left no number to call and it came up on my caller ID as "Out of Area."  They're still out and about trying to scam people.

I just got one a few minutes ago.  This is the 3rd or 4th time over about a 6 month period.  Anyone know how to stop it?

I am glad I googled TRPN--I work for a DME company in Florence, South Carolina and just received the same call from TRPN at 866-434-3674.  Message stated we had received payments from a provider and needed to request a TRPN and W9 statement for the IRS.  I hung up.  All of our contracted payors have our business information.

I received a call today from these idiots who contract with UHC to mislead PRIVATE PRACTICE doctors into signing contratcs for UHC. UHC SUCKS AND CANT KEEP BUSINESS. LOOK AT THEIR STOCKS.

I also received an automated message like the one others describe above today 02-03-09 at about 11am PST.

I just got the call exact today for the first time.  Just to be sure, I called my insurance company and they new nothing about this. Beware of this.

I'm not a physician, but, don't know why I started getting these calls too, exactly as stated above from that number.  I perhaps got about half a dozen of these so far.  They come in pairs -- in a single-day they would call twice and then go silent for a month or so, and then repeat.  I'm just a poor software engineer who has to watch his cell phone minutes' consumption in this tough economy, and this outfit eats up those minutes by these fraudulant calls.  I'm surprised after reading on this website that, this is going on for so long with many victims and the govt. is still not doing anything to stop it!

the call started half way through and I did not understand what they were talking about. The first time I thought it had to do with some property that we transferred and later I wondered if it was to do with my husbands SS. My
CPA was arrested a couple years ago and I thought I was being investigated.