Feeling somewhat blue today. You have been warned.
The mail deliveryperson continues to fail of delivering Items of Considerable Interest to the residents of the Cat Farm and Confusion Factory. Note to self: Look into arranging for a new mail deliveryperson.
Frequent readers of this journal will recall that Steve and I had been having a. . .discussion* with the insurance company about whether or not the cost of a diagnostic echocardiogram for a heart patient could ever be justified. The doctor’s office finally prevailed, by, I assume, the time-consuming, but effective, means of burying the insurance company’s Denial of Service Division in forms, and the echocardiogram was, after about a month’s delay, performed.
We have now received the bill for that procedure, and I am able to tell you the sum of money that the insurance company was fighting to keep rightfully in the hands of its stockholders (who, as you all of course know, deserve a return on their investments). That sum is. . .
$0.00
That’s right — nothing. Not one thin dime. We are responsible (as we knew we would be, since we have the Pay Anthem Blue Cross Six Bills a Month So We Can Have An Insurance Card insurance) for almost the entire amount of the bill. I say “almost” because Anthem Blue Cross happily knocked $42.18 off the total due to the hospital.
Man, that was so totally worth a month-long tantrum.
. . .In other news, I have heard back from Himself in re the Carousel Tides t-shirt. I’ll be talking about that in a separate post a little later today. First, though, I need to do dishes.
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*By “discussion” I mean here that the insurance company kept repeating, “But, the expense! Ow! OW! Our Stockholders’ Money! Oh! my daughter! OH! my ducats!” while the doctor’s office kept filing forms indicating that the echocardiogram was the third corner in a diagnostic triangulation to be certain that the various therapies Steve is undertaking in order to improve his heart’s function are indeed working as desired.
I worked in benefits administration for 10 years. It’s rather interesting to me that these “disputes” almost always worked out in favor of the insurance company.
You must have catastrophic insurance only, at $600 per month. That’s really low.