What is the most common complaint against Charleston Area Medical Center?

The most common issue consumers report about Charleston Area Medical Center is "Attempts to collect debt not owed", specifically "Debt was result of identity theft". This is based on 47 complaints filed with the CFPB.

Are complaints against Charleston Area Medical Center increasing or decreasing?

Complaints against Charleston Area Medical Center are falling. The company received 6 complaints in the last 12 months, showing improvement over prior periods.

What is Charleston Area Medical Center's reputation grade?

Charleston Area Medical Center has a reputation grade of C (score: 57.6/100), PlainCollector's composite letter grade blending complaint volume, response timeliness, dispute rate, and complaint trend.

Does Charleston Area Medical Center respond to consumer complaints?

Charleston Area Medical Center has a 78% timely response rate to CFPB complaints. Consumers disputed the company's response in 0% of cases.

In how many states does Charleston Area Medical Center operate?

Charleston Area Medical Center has received CFPB complaints from consumers in 3 states, with the most complaints from West Virginia (43 complaints).

This data comes from the CFPB Consumer Complaint Database and reflects consumer complaints, not proven violations.

Charleston Area Medical Center - Debt Collector Complaint Profile

CFPB complaint profile across 3 states, reputation grade C.

Compiled by PlainCollector

Attempts to collect debt not owed

24
Written notification about debt

10
False statements or representation

5
Took or threatened to take negative or legal action

2
Communication tactics

2
Cont'd attempts collect debt not owed

2

Data updated September 2026

CFPB complaint disposition

CCDB record charleston-area-medical-center Charleston Area Medical Center

Grade C · 47 CFPB filings · 78% timely · lead issue: Attempts to collect debt not owed · vol #1233 · compose #2817

VOL 47
GRADE C
12MO 6
STATES 3
TIMELY 78%
DISPUTE 0%
ISSUE Attempts to collect debt n…
RANK #1,233
COMPOSE #2,817

Volume peers

Nearest volume peer: Bayside Capital Services, LLC (47 complaints)

CFPB complaint volume neighbourhood (this collector + nearest volume peers)

Charleston Area Medical Center's 47 CFPB complaints sit next to Bayside Capital Services, LLC on the volume neighbourhood; peer NAMES stay, and disposition VALUES are this collector's. Grades compare collectors to each other - a complaint is a filing, not a proven violation. How to read a complaint count →

State-heavy filing map

91.5% of Charleston Area Medical Center's CFPB filings land in West Virginia

High volume does not equal a clean composite: Charleston Area Medical Center is volume #1,233 but composite #2,817, while West Virginia dominates the geography. Corpus placement method.

Dominant state: West Virginia 91.5%; 43 of 47 filings · 3 states touched
Spike month: 2014-08 16.7%; 1 filings that month · spiky (≥15% of series)
Divergent corpus ranks: #1,233 volume; #2,817 composite; Cleanest-composite ladder is 1,584 places worse than volume

How does Charleston Area Medical Center compare to its peers?

How does Charleston Area Medical Center compare? Versus a similar-volume peer and the national average (collectors with ≥50 total complaints), drawn from 10 collectors with a comparable complaint count

Charleston Area Medica… National average

Complaints (last 12 mo)lower is better

268

Timely-response ratehigher is better

78%

53%

91%

Consumer-dispute ratelower is better

19%

Source: CFPB Consumer Complaint Database.

Complaint Trend (24 months)

2014-08 2025-08

Issue Detail Breakdown

Issue	Complaints
Attempts to collect debt not owed	24
Written notification about debt	10
False statements or representation	5
Took or threatened to take negative or legal action	2
Communication tactics	2
Cont'd attempts collect debt not owed	2
Disclosure verification of debt	1
Improper contact or sharing of info	1

Where do complaints against Charleston Area Medical Center come from?

Charleston Area Medical Center's own per-state count, not a national baseline.

West Virginia

43
Ohio

3
Florida

1

Compare beyond geography

Nationwide peers by volume & timely response

Two PlainCollector-derived comparison paths for Charleston Area Medical Center: nearest all-time CFPB complaint volume and nearest CFPB timely-response rate among collectors with at least 100 logged complaints. State breakdowns above stay geographic; these neighborhoods vary by metric.

Similar filing volume

Nearest collectors by total CFPB complaints. This record: 47.

4 peers

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Data sourced from the CFPB Consumer Complaint Database. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainCollector

According to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's Consumer Complaint Database, 1,139,236 debt collection complaints are represented in the current PlainCollector snapshot. See our methodology for how PlainCollector computes each company's reputation grade from this data.

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