a friend of mine used to always say- the clerk is a jerk. by which she didnt mean their personalities, just that it is their job to say no.
copy that newspaper article and ask them why the hell they dont have the docs in their network. and just to be on the safe side, i would get those docs names and just look them up to make sure they actually ARENT in the network.
when they refuse to answer, dont ask to be connected to their super, make them spell out the name, then ask. then look them up and call direct when your call mysteriously cannot go through.
if you are too tired to call and yell at them, i can be your sister from chicago that is gonna straighten it out for you. they dont want to hear from your sister in chicago. but you cant help it. she insists on helping you get well, and she is f'ng sick of money and medicine together.
ftr, i had a small surgery scheduled today at a free standing surg center. in spite of the fact that the doc found a raging bronchitis at my pre-op, they kept insisting that i was still on the schedule until the got the report from the doc. they actually asked the anesthesiologist about it. he seriously insisted that if she cleared me, i was a go.
i put up a facebook post saying- at this point, if you arent worried about me, i'm worried about you.
the resched will NOT be at that center. it will be in the regular damn hospital.
that was just plain greed. so much for docs as gatekeepers for YOU.
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