Monday, September 12, 2011

Change of topic...gotta its way too heavy and it’s not my brotha, HA!

SOUND OFF!
What did you do today?
I personally yelled a bit and got into some people’s faces, not literarily but via phone land line ways…Why, you ask?

A few weeks ago if you recall I went to Hubby’s doctor when told that the initial cost would be such and such, yes $100 which is high but not more than many others wanted to charge for a first visit. Then after the agreed upon amount would be $70 if I needed to follow-up in the future, only $10 more than I was paying to see a nurse at the Health Department so I felt it was a good deal in the long run and he is an M.D.

Today, the mail came with a few bills, phone, expected, but three medical bills too!
Two were for Hubby and he has insurance and has been paying his co-pays as he goes along, which he should do, and they have been as little as five bucks or as much as thirty dollars and so we felt that was good and done with! (Oops I used another preposition, oh my!)
Any-who, once his Cardiology bill was discussed, one of the bills, it was found out that they posted it to a different procedure that he thought was covered and this newer amount was for a totally different one that he thought he had paid for with the whole thirty dollars now they required thirty more bucks which is doable. His second medical bill was the hospital bill which they stated that they received payment when called its billing had overlapped with the insurance company’s payment and so it was not needed to be paid and the billing department was premature in sending it, see always check when not sure. Mine on the other hand was confusing to me since it also had the cardiologists name on it and I had NOT seen a cardiologist, but oddly enough it showed I had already paid one hundred dollars for a preliminary visit and the balance of $61 was due!

A light bulb went off with my quick temper right behind it!
The internal medicine doctor was working with the cardiologists now in the same building… and so I said to their billing department that the agreed upon amount was the one hundred that I already paid and I would not be willing to pay anymore since I would have never gone in the first place for $161! And so the woman said if that is what you were told then it’s OK! And that’s that, the moral of the story when in doubt, check it out!

I don’t really think I was that nasty but I also didn’t let them think I was stupid either.
Bookkeeping is a part of any good business acumen program and I had years of doing that by experience in the field for over thirty years, actually forty if you count doing your own home books!
You see, when we get older people on occasion some do take advantage of that fact with not always such good intentions and so when I was still among the youngins in my forties, about twenty years ago give or take a few years I had the privilege of working with seniors as a volunteer and discussing scams with them and not to be too trusting since their trusting nature seems to be at times a minor flaw when dealing with persons without scruples.

There appears to be an entire generation who feels that way, ordinarily that would be a good thing, but on occasion it is not and it is in those times that are worrisome.

I guess you could say I am at the age where some may try to do that to me.
And oddly enough when you are in a wheel chair, on a mobility scooter or have one blind eye you are more than susceptible to that way of thinking no matter how old you are. When some think your brain has gone the way of your physical being, but no not happening, not ever! I do hope, at least not yet…! HA!

On that positive glimmer of what I still am…allow me to be the first to wish you all a very happy good night and to ask you kindly to count all your blessings and share all those overages and remember that when you can, you are still good and you, and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear?

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