So here's what's going to happen: My health insurance company is going to tell me that I hit some magical, unspoken limit on how much health I'm allowed to have, and deny my claim. Then, in addition to the $550 I send to BCBS from my own pocket every month, I will also have to pay whatever made-up number the doctor's office charges, probably like $300, which they can afford to charge because it's usually paid by a multi-million dollar health insurance corporation. So, since that was my only doctor's appointment this month, in total I'll have paid $850 for a single twenty-minute telemedicine appointment, in which I told my doctor I was stopping a prescription and he said "OK sounds good."
If I don't pay BCBS, I can never afford to have a medical issue again, and if I don't pay the doctor's office, I'll get turned over to a collection agency and receive threatening letters, text messages, phone calls, and probably take a hit to my credit, which will affect my ability to, say, rent an apartment.
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:amerikkka:
Classic America.
Six months after my divorce, I got a phone call from a specialist I had seen over a year prior, telling me that my ex-wife's insurance (which I was on at the time of the appointment) was claiming that I was not covered at that date (I most certainly was). The specialist sent me a bill for $500.
After several hours on hold and going back and forth with the specialist and the insurance company, no one agreed on anything. I'm assuming I only got the call from the specialist because some shady shit went down and they didn't submit the proper documentation when they should have, or fudged the date or something. Anyway, I never paid and the appointment happened almost 3 years ago at this point, haven't heard anything since so perhaps they figured it out themselves. Hopefully I'm good lol 🤷♂️