My Chronic Life

I’m in a pretty unique situation (not really but all of my doctor’s billing departments seem to think so) when it comes to health insurance. Without going into detail, I have two types of coverage. One must be primary and one secondary. That’s where the sticky part comes in. The billing offices are used to keeping the one that’s primary secondary and so on.

So what ends up happening is that I get medical bills. Now if you know a little about me, I practically live in doctor’s offices. So this is not only annoying but time consuming. Even though most of the doctors I see are in small offices they have corporate performance management departments that handle their billing. I can’t just talk to someone the next time I go to the office. Instead I have to call and explain my situation over and over.

It wouldn’t be so bad except that I have to do this almost every week. I think I’m going to tape myself speaking and play that to them when I call next. And there will be a next time.