Kidney Stone Follow-up, Part V

[bjarvis]

Remember my kidney stone incident last March? It's now nearly nine months later and the paperwork is still getting sorted out.

Just today, I received a statement from Anthem/Blue Cross, my health insurance provider, noting that there has been a $10.80 reduction in claims payment for the ambulance service from my hotel to the hospital.

The damned statement is so utterly undecipherable that I honestly can't even figure out what this means. Did the ambulance company revise its billing? Did Blue Cross spot an overpayment/underpayment and made clerical adjustments? Will someone be billing me for $10.80 at some point in the future? Was all of this just some big rounding error? Who can tell?

More importantly, will this matter ever end?

Comments

[pklexton.livejournal.com]

More importantly, when are you coming back?

[danthered.livejournal.com]

Oy. Paperwork like this is a lot like the kidney stones themselves: they hurt when they move, and either they're moving or you're waiting for them to move.

[ann0625.livejournal.com]

Thank you for posting this saga. After reading your stories I’ve elected to max out my health savings account next year. It’s earning a higher interest rate than my regular savings account anyway.