In yesterday's mail was another statement from the GI doctor's office. It was dated 12/30 and had a bunch of different charges on it, some I thought I had already paid online on 12/27. Once I figured out that I had paid some of them, there were 3 new charges, for the pathology done for dh's first endoscopy - charges totaling $842 and saying my share owed is $482. I'm like how is that possible, when dh had already met his deductible and should only owe max 20% of this?
I called their billing office (I think they use an outside billing company) and they made a mistake applying the insurance payment. They put what I owed as the provider write off adjustment. Once she fixed it, now I owe $90.
ALWAYS compare your insurance EOB's with what the provider is billing you and make sure they match! This was a $400 "clerical error" that I'm sure many people would not have caught and just paid it.
I'm just sitting here, 7am-ish. Drinking my coffee. Fed my new "churro addict"....on a plate (thanks for the tip! haha!) and trying to psych myself up for a day of staining boards. Hopefully dh doesn't get up too early and we get to get started at his normal "get going time" of around 11am LOL. Last night he was trying to pep talk me into it - "it'll be great. I'll have music playing in the shop, we'll have snacks..." What kind of snacks? "Water and Mountain Dew" LOL.
DD had to get a new oven a couple of weeks ago. What a fancy new one they got - it does convection, air frying and dehydrating (and probably more). She said last night they were trying out the dehydrator function with some bananas. What a better way to save counter space, then to have all these extra appliances. She said they will definitely be getting one like this when they build their new home.
It seems lots of people in our area do not like that Amazon is now using the delivery drivers hired with their own vehicles. It's been a new thing since about last spring or early summer. Half of them seems as sketchy as heck. It's never the same driver twice. Apparently one was caught taking pictures of a guys wife and a lot of people are feeling like they are getting scoped out for theft. We were expecting a package yesterday delivered by one of these drivers. Tracking showed they were very close, we were the next stop but the map was showing them still up on a road that is at a pretty high elevation - gravel road up there, snow....then tracking just showed they were up there and not moving. Then tracking said GPS tracking was lost. Then a vehicle pulled into our street, passed our house then turned around and parked out on the street between our house and Mr's. Dh figured it must be the Amazon driver so he went out there. Mr's dogs are barking. DH stood at our first gate, by the shop, waiting to see if the driver was getting out the packages or what. Finally dh yelled "hey!" "do you have a package for me?" and the guy said no. I'm just waiting to meet up with another driver, to hand off some packages. By this time Mr comes out of his house to see what all the barking is and why someone is basically parked in front of his driveway and hollers out to dh "hey [MrOne] - do we need to shoot some terrorists?" DH laughed and said, not this time. The driver looks at dh and asks "did he just call me a terrorist?" Finally the driver with our packages pulls in. DH is still standing inside our first gate and assumes the guy that had been sitting there waiting for her would say to her - this guy is waiting for his package...No, she gets back in her car, while dh is waving for her to stop there and just keeps on driving down to our other gate. No snow tires and trying to get up to these homes up on steep, high up roads. Dumb.
All this to say, I just wish Amazon would go back to using UPS. or at least the USPS, as they were before they started with these drivers. DH won't let me go out and meet them at the gate and he won't let them come onto our property either - doesn't trust them. Plus, I'd say about 80% of the one's we've had don't even speak English. I'll probably be seeing if stuff I want to order can just be ordered from Walmart or Target or some other place that will ship using standard delivery services.
Call Amazon and tell them you do not want drivers in unmarked truck. I hope we don't get those. Lowe's uses contracted drivers, not theirs. We had some skaggy looking drivers who were from Florida who tried to make a delivery at 8 am when I was asleep when the time for the delivery was 12:30. They became hostile and argued. They came back about three and argued about removing the old refrigerator. They refused. I called Lowe's and told them how they disparaged Lowe's and wanted me, a disabled woman to move a table so they could get the refrigerator out. They were going to leave the new one in the yard and let me get it into the house. I told Lowe's I would not be purchasing anything that had to be delivered. I have not. I now order appliances from Cullman and they deliver 60 miles away.
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