I have long said that medical insurance and doctor visits drive me crazy. I am very grateful that we have good insurance coverage, but it seems I have to keep a close eye on everything or it does not get paid correctly. The last couple of days, I have spent getting things fixed again. First Carson's dentist sent us a bill with over 70 of "previous balance." When I took the time to call and question them about it, I actually only owed them $16. Then today I had to deal with another bill from one of my doctor visits. I started trying to get it fixed back in December. I have called probably 5 times. Yesterday, the medical billing office sent me back to the doctors office. But, when I called the doctors office today, she said the insurance rep at the billing office needs to get it fixed. She is going to try to get it worked out for me. But, I have a final notice on a bill I have been trying to take care of for almost 3 months.
To top it off, our water bill this month was more than double the usual fee. I had to call them to figure out what was going on with that. It several phone calls to get a person. Once I did, I must have a leak because the water was going somewhere. After investigating myself, I discovered the meter reader had read the meter wrong. Today, three weeks after the meter was read, we are still 3, 000 gallons below what he read. So, I had to call back and have them send another reader out. Then, I have to call back to figure out what I actually own. Of course it will still be much higher than it would have been if he had done it correctly in the first place.
Does anyone else feel like you spend hours of you life trying to keep from paying more money than you owe? I swear it might drive me bats!
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walter spends lots of time making calls like that. do you have cigna? they are the worst! did i tell you that they wouldn't pay for jacob's circumcision at first because somehow it got coded as being done to me???? the denial code said i was too old to get it done. goodness!
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