Lied to by psychiatrist office, Please help lawyers?

I found a psychiatrist through my ppo insurance network. I researched him and found that his practice was welcoming and great for treating people with social anxiety disorder.
I called to make an appointment with him and they said he is booked up but there was another doctor within the office I could see.
I went in for my first office visit and paid 300 dollars to help meet my mental help deductible and paid with my debit card. The receipt shows the primary doctors name. My second visit I paid 60 dollars which was my copay.
To make this long story short. I had a problem with my medicine and asked to speak to the doctor. They said he doesnt work here anymore he only gave us one days notice and said he contacted his patients.
Turns out this guy wasnt registered for my insurance like the primary doctor is but they led me to believe he was.
My insurance company is the primary doctor's only insurance carrier. I was not the only patient that was led to believe this guy was covered under this insurance.
This doctor I was seeing was the only other doctor working within the office.
I found the receipt for the 60 dollars signed by the primary doctor that says copay. Obvious proof I was being duped.

I know for a fact there is only one secretary that handles the billing in that office and one secretary at all.

The office people should know which doctor is contracted with which insurance, for billing purposes. Call your insurance company and tell them what happened -- minimally they will keep a closer eye on, and maybe investigate the physician for fraud. Consider contesting the payment with the credit card company (false advertising). Consider small claims court, or get a lawyer with the rest of the patients (although their IDs will be hard to get with HIPPA regulations). Ask the office to eat the cost of the $240 -- it was their mistake, not yours. You can also consider calling a news channel --not cool to see healthcare providers scamming their especially vulnerable patient population. Write a nice letter, dated, so you have a paper trail, and ask for all copies of billing.

If the primary doc isn't "affiliated" with him, what the hell was he doing sharing his office space? BS. Sounds like he has pulled this trick on many patients and is just getting caught for the first time. Fry the guy.

You might have the only insurance policy in the world that makes it someone else's responsibility to determine the coverage, but I doubt it.

Court costs will be worse unless you can find several others for a class action over him. Sounds like a here today gone tommorow kind of thing. So there is noting more than counting your losses. I worked with a lot of mental health consumers over the years. Social anxiety is probably the most pointless of all treatable disorders with meds. In fact, the meds don't work that well either. And can cause more harm than good. Your better off reading books on the issue to understand how other people have overcome the anxiety problems. If you still want the med your better off waiting for the drug to be sold in generic form. Besides the price your going to pay for the med right now will be far more than a doctors visit payment issue. If you have medical help from the goverment you didn't take the time to see if he is also accepting people on medicaid or medicare. If that is the case it is your fault.