Does it only happen to me?

[Cataholic]

My son had a visit with an ENT. They never sent me a bill for the co-pay, instead they turned it over to collections.

We had returned to the office between the time of the first visit and the collection letter, and no one said, "oh, btw, you have a balance".

When the letter came and I phoned the collection agency, he laughed and said he gets calls like mine all the time. I wasn't really laughing, but, was glad he seemed to understand my frustration.

I will never forget my own visit to the doctor last spring (I think). I needed antibiotics for a sinus infection. I asked for a bill when I left and the receptionist told me she didn't know the amount, that a third party, off site, place did the billing and it would be mailed to me.

There is something strange about the medical community and its billing practices.

[Cinder & Smoke]

There is something strange about the medical community and its billing practices.

No kidding???


Billing "Practices" =

They sure need to **Practice** some more - they're NOT very good at it!

[lvpets2002]

And just wait till the Goverment takes it all over.. Wont that be funn.. Sorry Laura for all of your problems.. I know you just want to pull your hair out..

No kidding???


Billing "Practices" =

They sure need to **Practice** some more - they're NOT very good at it!

[Medusa]

Last year I received a "final notice" for a bill that my ins. co. didn't cover. However, I never received a first notice to begin with, so when I received the "final notice", I was surprised, to say the least. It was a couple thousand dollars so I asked if I could make it in 4 payments and I was told 'no' because this was my final notice. We went 'round and 'round and I ended up paying it all in one lump sum because I couldn't get the woman to understand that I had never received a notice at all until this final one.

[Medusa]

Btw, this is all typical of a retrograde Mercury, the planet of communication, movement, commerce, etc. There are miscommunications galore and Mercury will go direct tomorrow after being retrograde for 3 1/2 weeks. So I'm not surprised that this happened to you now, Laura. LOL

[smokey the elder]

Btw, this is all typical of a retrograde Mercury, the planet of communication, movement, commerce, etc. There are miscommunications galore and Mercury will go direct tomorrow after being retrograde for 3 1/2 weeks. So I'm not surprised that this happened to you now, Laura. LOL

That's interesting about the miscommunications and retrograde Mercury. In my lab people submit request forms; for the last several weeks the error rate has been very high (incorrect date, test article, analysis, etc.) Hmm...

Freedom, maybe you have retrograde Mercury in your natal chart? It seems to beg a lot of wacky statistics for you to keep falling through the computer bytes like that!

[Laura's Babies]

Now why couldn't they have talked to each other and figured this out?!

That is what I wonder.. Sure would have been easier that mailing out 8 months worth of bills.

My situation with the collection agency was all they had was the amount owed, not WHO it was owed to or what doctor submitted it to the lab. If they'd had that information to give me it could have been resolved so much sooner. Hint folks.. You are NOT going to get your money by calling me out of the blue and saying I owe $$$ but you don't know for what or who or even when the bill was made.. "Here's your sign!"