Nation...On Saturday, August 1st (after 2 full months without a menstrual period, but extremely hormonally-despressed and craving sugar), I purchased a home pregnancy test. I'd been certain that as soon as I became glad of having no periods, I'd discover I was pregnant and too far along for a termination ("Go, Palin!") Good news...no further offspring at this point in time; bad news...my period started the very next morning! What are the fucking chances? I hate my body and my life.
On August 4th, the husband had his cataract surgery; August 5th and 12th, his post-op follow-up visits. Surgeon indicated it would take a full month before he saw the complete result; however, on the day after surgery, he was reading license plates from moving cars as they passed us on the highway! He's doing very well with healing per the surgeon, who was pleased at his 1-week post-op progress.
I made note in this blog about 2 weeks ago about the surgeon being out of network, but the office at which she works is IN network. After the visit on 8/12, a staff member gave us a statement regarding the $805 balance. This is after we have paid for the lens implant ($850) and the actual surgery ($1000). It seems that the pre-op appointment from July 15th is being billed by the surgeon, and NOT the office - so no out of network benefits! They want $150 for the actual office visit, plus $700 for various testing that ran about 30 minutes total. Since the husband paid $35 Specialist Co-pay (thinking it was a visit being billed through the office) the balance is $805. I was on the phone with them yesterday, and now waiting for a call back to see if they'll lower their expectations a bit (to maybe what an insurance carrier might pay them! -) Bastards. They always get you.
I'll update this later, as I think my micro-manager will be in the office today.
Thursday, August 13, 2009
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