I’m guessing, like most people with health insurance, there comes the ability to track all sorts of goodies via their insurance intertubes. I was given a log in and password and viola’ I am treated to all things health related. In my opinion this particular site has a little to much stuff to weed through actually. The useful stuff like tracking visits and doctors, is somewhat hard to find, lurking behind flashy ads for all sorts of garbage which leads to a lot of time wasting and intertubes wandering. So here I am poking around trying to find important information on my doctors and past visits. Not being an insurance person, but simply a common serf, I know what I’m looking for but I don’t know what it’s called. Seems to me ‘Dr visits’ would be appropriate, but no, they have to call it claims, as in ‘I claim all this money for myself’. Did you know the synoymn for claim is ‘demand’…figures. But I digress. Claims it is, I click to enter.
I haven’t been to my GP for about a year now…knock on wood. But don’t let that fool you into thinking that I don’t get yearly physicals, because I have one coming up. Anyhoo, as I’m looking through my stuff I see a visit to a doctor that I don’t recognize on a date that I was out of town. Wait a sec, did I just experience time travel and go to a doctor on a day I was somewhere else? Interesting. Or is it…? As I scroll further into my investigation, I see a note on said claim that is coded thusly ND8: THE PROCEDURE CODE IS INCONSISTENT WITH THE PATIENT’S AGE. Yeah think? Hey that should tell somebody, somewhere something…if they are paying attention. I guess I’m that somebody somewhere, pointing it out to someone.
I pick up my nearby phone and call the Dr’s office to point out that something is wacky on this claim and that it needs to be reversed. No, problem, I am told, it will be done right away. Excellent…or is it? That phone call took place at least 2 months ago and within that time frame I’ve followed up with additional phone calls requesting the correction. Earlier this week, I received in the mail, a bill for an office visit with this same doctor and date . WTF? Well of course I’m not going to pay it, but it has my name written all over it and most likely because it has my name all over it and I’m not going to pay it, it will go to collection. If that happens I will be royally pissed, not just your middle of the road sorta pissed. Stay tuned…
I’m like a dog with a bone, or in my case a cat with a bone. And like a small animal with a marrow fetish who can’t get enough of said bone, I can’t get enough of this gorgeous weather. See these lovely chairs sitting in our backyard? Did you notice anything odd about them? Yes, that’s right, neither Sweet Husband nor myself are in any one of them. Believe me, it’s not for lack of trying. These chairs practically call out our names to come and lounge. However, we were both pulling out of the driveway at 5:29am this morning going our seperate ways. Frankly, that’s not how I’d like to spend these 65 degree mornings. Yes I do believe it’s going to be a warm one in ol Sea-town today, but I won’t be here to participate. I’m at the airport waiting to wing my way south, where it might possibly be even warmer. I’m on my way to, yes you guessed it, a food show. You’d think one food show would be enough, but you have to take into account not all customers purchase our fine cheese from the same distributor, so here we are. A friend asked me yesterday if the two food shows that I’m attending this week are the kind where I ’show the food’, or ’see the food’. Yes, I answered, one of each. I’ll give a minor update when I get back. So until then stay cool and adjust. Here’s a teensy challenge for you, is there anything that you’d like me to look for at these food shows? Come on, give it your best shot, but I would like to narrow the challenge down to actual food. It won’t do either one of us any good if you want me to check out the new tricycle lawn mower.
