So as referenced in this thread, I broke my left arm about 18 months ago, around Labor Day in 2006. It took a whole year, 12 months, for UHC to pay the surgery center, and I thought the whole shit was over.
I got a collections letter a few weeks ago. Seems the doctors office fucked up my address somehow, god knows how. It was only when the account landed at the collection agency that the address got corrected. Jackasses.
Heh, sorry, I can’t tell the difference between Labor Day and Memorial Day. I broke my arm just before Memorial Day, and I had surgery in June, after the orthos finally admitted it wasn’t healing with a cast. As the fracture was at my elbow, they placed the casts on my upper arm. They’d slide down until they would have fallen off if my wrist hadn’t been in the way. 4 of those, and it was time for surgery.
Oh, yeah, baby. I’ve made lots of money because so many medical billers are incompetent. And surly. And lazy.
Five kids & hubby have their bachelors, while we all lived indoors and ate – because of billing office incompetence.
Yes, I’m a bill collector. Please don’t give the A/R clerks a concussion, that would only increase the problem.
For those of you who have doctors with competent office staff, please take a moment to let them know they’re appreciated. I’m dead serious when I say that I like most of my debtors better than many of their creditors.
Hmm, I had a similar sounding fracture (lower end of humerus broken clean off about 1/2" from elbow). The GP shot me up with enough morphine to not quite kill me, and had my dad drive me to a hospital to meet the best ortho he knew. I had a cast from shoulder to fingers (with a thumb hole). It had a loop built in for a sling. No slippage issues, and I was very active at the time. But maybe your docs aren’t up on these new fangled techniques, as that was only 41 years ago.