Day 37: Don’t Faint

I finally received my hospital bill. Naturally, it claims that none of it will be covered because it was out-of-network, despite my multiple earlier calls and web site checks to verify that it was in-network. I wonder how many phone calls it will take to get this straightened out? Note that I’m operating under the [...]

Day 28

Just got my first bill for this whole fibroid incident. The abdomen/pelvis CT scan was $7,114.09 and the pharmaceutical aspect of it was $403.50. All of it is covered except for a $150 co-pay. Now let’s wait and find out how much the myomectomy surgery, anesthesia, hospital stay, and pathology report were…

More Red Tape

I hate dealing with health insurance!!! Today, I called my health insurance provider to verify one last time that tomorrow’s surgery would be fully covered: Facility: Yep, they verified the hospital is in-network. Surgeon: Yep, they verified she’s in-network. I asked if pre-auth for my procedure had been issued yet, and she said there was [...]

Priceless

After all the chaos associated with insurance coverage for my CT scan, I was bracing myself for worse regarding my upcoming myomectomy surgery. Upon calling my insurance provider, I was told that no of course it’s not all covered, and have I met my annual deductible yet? (All right, here we go again.) I said [...]

Red Tape

Friday evening, I had called my health insurance about getting a CT scan and they said I’d need pre-auth in order to have the test covered. If I went to the ER on Saturday, I’d have to pay additional ER charges. Their authorization department was closed for the week, however, and would not open up [...]

The Easy One

Found a lab that was open on Saturdays and that took my health insurance, so I went to get my blood test done. It barely hurt and went by so fast that I asked in surprise, am I done? The lab technician said, yeah but if you like, I can do it again and this [...]