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Not really mentioning much else with work. Since that is what it is at this point. Plus I've been on "vacation" this week.
So with Kiba. A week and a half ago he had his 8 week checkup. He was doing pretty well, but they said his knee was a little inflamed and it was trying to pop out because of fluid behind it. So this past Tuesday we took him back in. He was to be sedated, given a shot or two and have it drained. Well, we had joked about something happening, in part because I've been trying to be really positive about everything with him. In part because all of this has to work. So we waited out in the parking lot for a call back. Since he's not going fully under and it's a little over an hour to get there we were trying to figure out if we were able to roam around the area for a few hours and pick him back up. Instead of making that full trip twice in one day. Well, when we got the call back the thing we joked about happened. His doctor was a bit surprised, but also happy. His knee was perfectly fine now. We had guessed when we heard about this that the lump he developed had just drained into his knee and that was causing the problems. She said it was completely possible. So she just sent him home with us and we started some of his other exercises. We figured we'll give it about a month or so and then call her back with updates and such. Since we weren't told about a time for getting him checked again or to do the other knee.
As far as me, I'm doing better at least in regard to the blood pressure thing. Had my actual doctors visit the other day and got put on two more pills, at least for now. It appears to be helping even more and then I have another checkup in three weeks. So we'll see where all of that goes.
The only other thing I have to figure out here is this damn bill from the hospital. I did a bunch of research on it and am attempting to fight it. So I'm waiting for them to send me a detailed list of things and probably fight a bunch of it. Because as far as the bill it just has the hospital visit, blood work and ekg on it. Just for going there they are trying to charge me $2000. So someone screwed something up on that part. So like I said I'm waiting for a detailed list on things so I can sift through that and get them to change it. Let alone them giving me an ekg when it would have shown that I was already given one a week prior. I'm not terribly worried about paying that bill, since I can. I just shouldn't be paying that much for being stressed out and being forced to wait at a hospital for 10 hours for them to just give me a pill and send me home because I was fine. Along with having to listen to how they've had an influx of covid cases coming in.
So that's just a waiting game with that. I figured I'll probably have to skip doing the email method once I get the list and start making calls. But I figured if I can get a large chunk of money taken off of it, then it's worth it. Oh yeah also, my insurance barely paid for anything. Because they healthcare system in this country sucks so much. I think it paid for close to 400 or something like that and I still owe around 2300 or something.
So with Kiba. A week and a half ago he had his 8 week checkup. He was doing pretty well, but they said his knee was a little inflamed and it was trying to pop out because of fluid behind it. So this past Tuesday we took him back in. He was to be sedated, given a shot or two and have it drained. Well, we had joked about something happening, in part because I've been trying to be really positive about everything with him. In part because all of this has to work. So we waited out in the parking lot for a call back. Since he's not going fully under and it's a little over an hour to get there we were trying to figure out if we were able to roam around the area for a few hours and pick him back up. Instead of making that full trip twice in one day. Well, when we got the call back the thing we joked about happened. His doctor was a bit surprised, but also happy. His knee was perfectly fine now. We had guessed when we heard about this that the lump he developed had just drained into his knee and that was causing the problems. She said it was completely possible. So she just sent him home with us and we started some of his other exercises. We figured we'll give it about a month or so and then call her back with updates and such. Since we weren't told about a time for getting him checked again or to do the other knee.
As far as me, I'm doing better at least in regard to the blood pressure thing. Had my actual doctors visit the other day and got put on two more pills, at least for now. It appears to be helping even more and then I have another checkup in three weeks. So we'll see where all of that goes.
The only other thing I have to figure out here is this damn bill from the hospital. I did a bunch of research on it and am attempting to fight it. So I'm waiting for them to send me a detailed list of things and probably fight a bunch of it. Because as far as the bill it just has the hospital visit, blood work and ekg on it. Just for going there they are trying to charge me $2000. So someone screwed something up on that part. So like I said I'm waiting for a detailed list on things so I can sift through that and get them to change it. Let alone them giving me an ekg when it would have shown that I was already given one a week prior. I'm not terribly worried about paying that bill, since I can. I just shouldn't be paying that much for being stressed out and being forced to wait at a hospital for 10 hours for them to just give me a pill and send me home because I was fine. Along with having to listen to how they've had an influx of covid cases coming in.
So that's just a waiting game with that. I figured I'll probably have to skip doing the email method once I get the list and start making calls. But I figured if I can get a large chunk of money taken off of it, then it's worth it. Oh yeah also, my insurance barely paid for anything. Because they healthcare system in this country sucks so much. I think it paid for close to 400 or something like that and I still owe around 2300 or something.
DireWolf505
~direwolf505
So, mostly good news.
CaptRoo
~captroo
It might be worth a call to the your ins. company. If the hospital agreed to take your insurance than legally they have to accept what they pay. They cant then bill you for what your insurance did not pay for. When a hospital agrees to accept insurance payments they agree to what they pay for certain services and they have to accept it and CAN NOT bill the patient. If you went to an out of network hospital, you can fight it with your insurance company and they will pay the bill. the only thing you should be billed for is if you went out of network and have to pay 20% for out of network, assuming your insurance has out of network coverage. Sometimes dealing with your insurance company is better than the hospital. Insurance company will tell you if the hospital is trying to yank your chain and bill for what ins did not pay for.
Naki
~red13nanaki
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Yeah, that's one other thing I read into and have said someone else suggest as well. The thing though is I even checked today and going to that hospital was in network, it's just because it's state paid insurance it just sucks ass. Because by the looks of it the insurance just doesn't pay for crap and I have to pay 8000 into them, before they help me with things like that. The only thing it helps with is I think it said I pay $50 for these hospital visits.
