HUMC again.
Jul. 2nd, 2013 11:47 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
camwynHey, remember this? The people at Cigna told me, when I sent them the bill, that HUMC was arguing internally over whether they'd agreed to the insurance company's "discount" or not (translation: O NOES THEY REALIZED WE CHARGE THREE TIMES THE COST OF A STANDARD VAGINAL DELIVERY TO TAPE UP A PAIR OF CUT FINGERS, CHANGE THE BILL). They said it was now in HUMC's court.
HUMC called today and told me that Cigna was claiming I had never contacted them about this particular bill.
This is bull puckey, although the fact that my response from Cigna came over the phone rather than via email makes me a bit unhappy. I printed out the email that I sent to Cigna on the 23rd, and the scanned copy of the bill from HUMC that I attached to that email, and faxed it to both HUMC and Cigna, and then phoned HUMC and left a message saying "There's your proof, I faxed it to Cigna too, now you deal with it".
If you are ever, ever, ever in need of urgent medical care in the Hoboken, Jersey City, or Bayonne area... hail a cab and go somewhere else. These coal mining company executives will charge you a baby* for a cut finger. It isn't worth it. This crap is exactly why I passed my last kidney stone at home- because as soon as I recognized the pain I knew that I had two choices, and one of them was going to Hoboken University Medical Center. Better to take a lot of ibuprofen, drink a lot of water, and suffer until it passed on its own than to go anywhere near these jerks. They'd probably want the kidney as compensation.
*as opposed to an arm and a leg
HUMC called today and told me that Cigna was claiming I had never contacted them about this particular bill.
This is bull puckey, although the fact that my response from Cigna came over the phone rather than via email makes me a bit unhappy. I printed out the email that I sent to Cigna on the 23rd, and the scanned copy of the bill from HUMC that I attached to that email, and faxed it to both HUMC and Cigna, and then phoned HUMC and left a message saying "There's your proof, I faxed it to Cigna too, now you deal with it".
If you are ever, ever, ever in need of urgent medical care in the Hoboken, Jersey City, or Bayonne area... hail a cab and go somewhere else. These coal mining company executives will charge you a baby* for a cut finger. It isn't worth it. This crap is exactly why I passed my last kidney stone at home- because as soon as I recognized the pain I knew that I had two choices, and one of them was going to Hoboken University Medical Center. Better to take a lot of ibuprofen, drink a lot of water, and suffer until it passed on its own than to go anywhere near these jerks. They'd probably want the kidney as compensation.
*as opposed to an arm and a leg
