tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2339303059074627867.post3710414999677028792..comments2023-08-25T08:23:59.391-05:00Comments on A miracle in my purse...and other lessons i've learned from my kids: Insurance faux pasJust a smalltown girlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04562245873939567556noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2339303059074627867.post-39863487625666855202008-06-21T00:05:00.000-05:002008-06-21T00:05:00.000-05:00After I went to the hospital for my miscarriage, a...After I went to the hospital for my miscarriage, a few weeks later, I got a packet in the mail with a pregnancy journal and planning prenatal care pamphlets.<BR/>Now I find in humorous that insurance companies don't pay a bit of attention to the claims, but then, it did nothing but put me down in the dumps again.Dorannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02791015221128572671noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2339303059074627867.post-85922629281643696672008-06-20T20:54:00.000-05:002008-06-20T20:54:00.000-05:00Two years after my son's skull reconstruction surg...Two years after my son's skull reconstruction surgery, I received a bill for $5,000 for drill bits, saw blades and screws!! I had to call a ZILLION places and tried to get it through the insurance, but we had changed insurance companies. Come to find out that it was well past the time they should've billed the insurance and they had to write it off. Besides, the 'approved amount' for the original surgery was well over $500,000 (with all the surgeons and assitants involved plus three days in the hospital and all the stuff that goes with that. I guess it wasn't really an insurance faux pas? More of a hospital one?Teesa69https://www.blogger.com/profile/03509636302606324138noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2339303059074627867.post-48358938377006322272008-06-20T16:52:00.000-05:002008-06-20T16:52:00.000-05:00When my daughter was hospitalized with infantile b...When my daughter was hospitalized with infantile botulism, my husband called to get permission for the hospital to buy a $50,000 drug for her. The insurance company had an answering machine on saying that they weren't open, please leave a message. We got a note from the doctor who said she needed this drug now, not Monday morning at 9am (it would be too late). The doctor wrote us a note saying that this drug was necessary and urgent. Fortunately, we never received a bill for this hospitalization.Mary Ellenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17641383923629701694noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2339303059074627867.post-55722209520822084672008-06-20T07:58:00.000-05:002008-06-20T07:58:00.000-05:00We didn't have our own health insurance for our fi...We didn't have our own health insurance for our first pregnancy, so I qualified for pregnancy Medicaid. At 28 weeks, I was in the hospital for 3 days for pre-term labor. Then at 36 weeks, we discovered that she had died in utero (found out later that the cause was a cord accident). While was in the hospital recovering from the c-section, a medicaid case worker called to ask why I was in the hospital again.<BR/><BR/>I found it very ironic that I had to explain to a compete stranger over the phone that my baby had died. She was a bit speechless...Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03954179323097955442noreply@blogger.com