Horror story I - a bill of $26,500
We received a bill of $26,500 from the insurance company of my previous employer in mid January. After I called both insurance companies and look at my current insurance card, my heart sank. There is a gap between the two during October, 2007. We are gonna have to pay the money back in installment.
While I was waiting for my husband to come home and was fuming over the whole thing - he had told me that he had taken care of the insurance situation, but now was telling me that we'd just them little by little the rest of our life if we indeed wasn't covered - I happened to find his old insurance card in the drawer (full of old receits, cards, all kinds of 'useless' junk). We had received replacement cards after we had chosen our primary physicians. The card in my purse had the starting date of 10-26-2007, but the card in the drawer had the starting date of 10-01-2007. I had cut my old one (as instructed) when I put the new one in my purse. Of course, they just made a mistake because of the new date.
Jack got on the phone and talk very, very politely to the insurance staff of the hospital. About a week later, we received the new bill. It was $703.00 for the copayment. That we can handle. But what a scare! I was just about ready to get a divorce - ("how could he do this to me? He had assured me that he had taken care of...")
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