Thursday, May 18, 2006

I Give Up

Every day there’s a new bill.  One for the hospital, one for the surgery center, one for the pre-op doctor, one for the pain injection doctor, one for the lab, one for the surgeon (which I haven’t gotten yet) I’m sure.  Hell, why don’t all of you send me a bill just for reading this, because that would make as much sense as all of the double-billing going on here.  My suggestion if you have a large disc herniation, skip the damned $7,000 injections.  It’s a waste of your whole day, it doesn’t do much good (yet they manage to set you up for a series of three right away…at $7000/each), the doctor doesn’t give a shit if they help (I haven’t heard one word from that doctor’s office - Pain Institute of Nevada , in case you were wondering), and you’ll end up having surgery anyway.

I’m so damned tired of getting bills with ridiculous charges.  Fine, if you want to screw my crappy insurance company, go ahead.  I, personally, don’t have the money to pay the $500 markup on $12 stockings.  Or the five billion percent markup on Percocet or Valium.  The insurance paid a lot of your stupidly outrageous charges, leave me alone.  Also, if you don’t have the final charges, quit sending partial bills that don’t make ANY sense.  I went to college, my IQ is higher than average, but I still don’t understand what I’m supposed to do with all of these half-assed bills/not bills.  It’s a full-time job to attempt to figure out who is charging for what, and then who is charging EXTRA for what.  I don’t care anymore. 

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1. Expensive pain injections! I know whereof you speak. Mizter S had a herniated disc a few months ago, and was sent to the Pain Management Institue for those 10 million dollar injections. Which the insurance company won’t pay for. Suckage.

   Miz S  on  05/19  at  08:05 PM

2. Your insurance company wouldn’t pay?????  Arrrgggh.  How much did the injections cost?  And did they at least help him?

   Flippy  on  05/20  at  12:11 AM

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