tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5140743223864220003.post746627851675922972..comments2024-02-14T04:20:30.937-06:00Comments on The World According to Tracy: Dealing with the Hospital ... ARRRGGHHH!!!!Tracyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02026429803158132164noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5140743223864220003.post-8089305626120889072011-11-15T18:05:39.651-06:002011-11-15T18:05:39.651-06:00UGH! I hate dealing with doctor's bills as we...UGH! I hate dealing with doctor's bills as well. What I really hate is that things that should be covered in full, come to me in the mail labeled as a "procedure" and now cost $375.<br /><br />Seriously. I had a plantars wart removed from my foot (twice) and it cost over $500 because it was billed out as a procedure.<br /><br />And I still have the wart.<br /><br />UGH!Julihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10097214923216967086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5140743223864220003.post-11014491986039645622011-11-15T17:21:22.224-06:002011-11-15T17:21:22.224-06:00Oh yeah, this sounds so familiar. Back when Joey ...Oh yeah, this sounds so familiar. Back when Joey was just an infant we were in the ER (we drove him there ourselves). That ER wasn't equipped to handle what we needed (pediatric care)and said we needed to be seen at Children's. We started packing up and said, "We'll go straight there". Their reply was, "Oh well you need to wait for the ambulance"<br /><br />Yeah! We drove ourselves there but needed to take the ambulance -according to them. We argued that our insurance wouldn't cover the trip and that our car was in the parking lot. They refused our pleas stating that since they are not equipped to handle our needs the insurance will pay....and we took the ambulance.<br /><br />AND! They mailed all the bills to the wrong address (some place 15 miles away from where we were living!). The bills went to collections. Collections called us asking about why we hadn't paid the bill.....It was 4 months later so we were like, "WHAT?! BILL!?"<br /><br />Yeah! It was a nightmare to straighten out but in the end the hospital president?? Forget who it was, called and apologized and fixed our credit and dropped all charges from that day.<br /><br />Our strongest defense was the fact that we had so much stuff documented from the visit. AND their paper trail showed that they billed an address where my husband had lived when he was a young boy. He hadn't been living in that house for over 20 years!Rebeccahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07930274958410589309noreply@blogger.com