stupid f-ing dumbasses
10 Dec 2005 04:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jennickelsYeah, you heard me. I swear I hate getting bills, especially when it is from retards. So today I'm opening up mail my dad forwarded to me. One was from Tinley Woods Anesthesia. Back in, oh...May of 2004, Brenna had to have eye surgery. She was 18 months old. Even though insurance covered the surgery we were requested to pay up front the difference and it just about broke the bank. It really wasn't much. (almost $300 for the use of the facilities and $108 for the anesthesia). We paid it so she could get her surgery done and thought that was that. A few months later we recieved a refund of $47 for the anestesia.
Well today I get another bill from these idiots saying I owe $60.75. So I look at the bill. The anesthesia was $810. Our insurance discount was $405. Insurance then paid $344.25, leaving $60.75. Okay so the math works. Problem is we already paid $108 back in May 2004 and we already got our $47 refund (the math works there too). These people are idiots. The problem stems from the fact that they never sent the papers into the insuance people on time or something (I periodically get stuff from the insuance saying they are reprocessing the claim). They finally get it all straightened out and now they want me to pay again. Morons!!!!
No offence to any medical billing people out there but Damn! get it together already. This isn't the first medical billing problem I've had in the last week or so.
A couple weeks ago I got a note from Meagan's dentist that they are no longer doing buisness with the billing company we were paying. No big deal except I had just sent my last payment of $20 to the billing people. But since the due date was before they even sent the letter I didn't care. Then a week later I get a note from them again saying I owe $20 and to promptly pay. Oh for Pete's sake. I ignored it since I already paid. Then a few days after that I get a bill from the billing agency saying I owe $20 and this was their final attempt to get payment before they send it to a collection agency. It's just twenty freaking dollars people. And I paid it. Okay so it was a week late. But I paid it.
So now both the office and the billing agency seem to think I owe $20. I hope they communicate a little and it gets taken care of. I am not paying both of them.
Then...I get a bill from Brenna's eye doctor with final notice stamped across the bottom. This bill is also from the surgery from last year. It says we owe $100 but I went through my checkbook and found several checks to them equaling about $40. But I had forgotten about a week ago I got a letter from them that had two bills. One was a computer printout that we owed $100 (like I got the other day) and one was a regular bill on their letter head like I used to get. I don't remember how much that one was for. I was very confused and filed it away thinking I would contact them in a few days. Now I can't find the dang letter.
We are so broke right now that none of these people are getting money from us. We just paid our rent, car payment and insuance leaving us with pretty much nothing. Our gas bill was a little over $100 which was about $40 less then last month so keeping the thermostat at 60 helped. I can't wait to see what our electric is. If it seems much higher then last month I am going to kill our landlord. He hooked up this stupid lighted sign last week and there are really only two places he can be getting the juice from--us or the preschool downstairs. I refuse to pay to light his stupid sign. No where in our lease does it say we have to pay for that.
On the up side--my dad sent me a very pretty birthday card with $150 for my birthday/christmas gift and the note said to spend it on myself, Ha. Who is he kidding. I am so much like my mom. I already spent it--on a Christmas tree and boots and snowsuits for the kids. I did get myself a couple of magazines. He also sent $200 to get gifts for the kids from him and Santa. I have no clue what to get them. $200 really isn't much to split between 3 kids especially if it is from Papa and Santa.
We haven't gotten much for the kids ourselves. Owen is getting a Tonka truck with a trailer pulling two bikes, a NASCAR that he wanted and something else (I forget off hand). Meagan is getting some art stuff (she loves to draw) and some Barbies and a puzzle. Brenna is getting a small doll house and a few other small things like that. And a NASCAR of her favorite driver (Bobby Labonte).
I did pick up a bunch of books for the kids at Wal-mart from Santa/Papa because that is something he would get them. And eventually I will get over to Target to go through their dollar bins and see what I can find. They usually have cute stuff for the girls.
Oh and they all got new underwear. Toys r us had a great deal when I was there a couple weeks ago--3 packs of character briefs for boys for $12 and 3 packs of girls character panties for $10. Owen got 3 packs, Brenna got 2 and Meagan got 1 (she's already got a ton). I was most happy about that, lol. Oh, the little things.
Well today I get another bill from these idiots saying I owe $60.75. So I look at the bill. The anesthesia was $810. Our insurance discount was $405. Insurance then paid $344.25, leaving $60.75. Okay so the math works. Problem is we already paid $108 back in May 2004 and we already got our $47 refund (the math works there too). These people are idiots. The problem stems from the fact that they never sent the papers into the insuance people on time or something (I periodically get stuff from the insuance saying they are reprocessing the claim). They finally get it all straightened out and now they want me to pay again. Morons!!!!
No offence to any medical billing people out there but Damn! get it together already. This isn't the first medical billing problem I've had in the last week or so.
A couple weeks ago I got a note from Meagan's dentist that they are no longer doing buisness with the billing company we were paying. No big deal except I had just sent my last payment of $20 to the billing people. But since the due date was before they even sent the letter I didn't care. Then a week later I get a note from them again saying I owe $20 and to promptly pay. Oh for Pete's sake. I ignored it since I already paid. Then a few days after that I get a bill from the billing agency saying I owe $20 and this was their final attempt to get payment before they send it to a collection agency. It's just twenty freaking dollars people. And I paid it. Okay so it was a week late. But I paid it.
So now both the office and the billing agency seem to think I owe $20. I hope they communicate a little and it gets taken care of. I am not paying both of them.
Then...I get a bill from Brenna's eye doctor with final notice stamped across the bottom. This bill is also from the surgery from last year. It says we owe $100 but I went through my checkbook and found several checks to them equaling about $40. But I had forgotten about a week ago I got a letter from them that had two bills. One was a computer printout that we owed $100 (like I got the other day) and one was a regular bill on their letter head like I used to get. I don't remember how much that one was for. I was very confused and filed it away thinking I would contact them in a few days. Now I can't find the dang letter.
We are so broke right now that none of these people are getting money from us. We just paid our rent, car payment and insuance leaving us with pretty much nothing. Our gas bill was a little over $100 which was about $40 less then last month so keeping the thermostat at 60 helped. I can't wait to see what our electric is. If it seems much higher then last month I am going to kill our landlord. He hooked up this stupid lighted sign last week and there are really only two places he can be getting the juice from--us or the preschool downstairs. I refuse to pay to light his stupid sign. No where in our lease does it say we have to pay for that.
On the up side--my dad sent me a very pretty birthday card with $150 for my birthday/christmas gift and the note said to spend it on myself, Ha. Who is he kidding. I am so much like my mom. I already spent it--on a Christmas tree and boots and snowsuits for the kids. I did get myself a couple of magazines. He also sent $200 to get gifts for the kids from him and Santa. I have no clue what to get them. $200 really isn't much to split between 3 kids especially if it is from Papa and Santa.
We haven't gotten much for the kids ourselves. Owen is getting a Tonka truck with a trailer pulling two bikes, a NASCAR that he wanted and something else (I forget off hand). Meagan is getting some art stuff (she loves to draw) and some Barbies and a puzzle. Brenna is getting a small doll house and a few other small things like that. And a NASCAR of her favorite driver (Bobby Labonte).
I did pick up a bunch of books for the kids at Wal-mart from Santa/Papa because that is something he would get them. And eventually I will get over to Target to go through their dollar bins and see what I can find. They usually have cute stuff for the girls.
Oh and they all got new underwear. Toys r us had a great deal when I was there a couple weeks ago--3 packs of character briefs for boys for $12 and 3 packs of girls character panties for $10. Owen got 3 packs, Brenna got 2 and Meagan got 1 (she's already got a ton). I was most happy about that, lol. Oh, the little things.
