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[I am still oxox]

Wish me patience, I was in the hospital for 8 days earlier this month, while I was there my insurance changed.

I have my husbands insurance as my primary and Medicare as my secondary, along with the change in insurance, none of the bills I have received are correct. 

For each bill I need to make a call and give the same information, this is going to be a long and painful experience, but it is still better than paying $1000's in insurance co pays

[Still Raining]

Oh you poor thing.  I think if I had an IP stay that straddled two payers I would just give up and die.  Would take a lifetime to get it right.  

[CelticCrafter]

When I was getting close to going from private pay to Medicare I told my husband to wait until after midnight of the last day of private pay before calling an ambulance!

[DianeJ2]

Ugh 😩  I feel your pain.  Yeah the co pay savings will be worth the aggravation, hang in there! Years ago, I  had to call insurance daily for my dad's 3 month hospital stay. I had 5 bags of paperwork stored. He had Aetna, Medicare plus a supplemental.  I went a bit nutty.

Hope you're feeling better these days @I am still oxox  

[Jordan2]

@I am still oxox I feel bad for you. Good luck sorting it all out.

[Spacrazy]

Oh gosh, all I can say is “bless your heart”.

I sincerely wish you the very best for your good health and for patience as you tackle this adjustment.

[SunSprite]

@I am still oxox  I agree, it is a great big pain in the caboose. 

Are you being billed with the inpatient hospital charges on the same bill as the physicians' charges? A single billing office statement or SBO? The reason I ask is if they are coming on one statement then you really only need ot make one phone call. 

[I am still oxox]

@SunSprite 

No I am not so lucky, the doctors are billed different from the ER visit and other doctors that saw me when i was there.

I had an in house doc, an infectious disease doc and a pumonologist, both from the medical practice that I go to 

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@SunSprite wrote:

@I am still oxox  I agree, it is a great big pain in the caboose. 

Are you being billed with the inpatient hospital charges on the same bill as the physicians' charges? A single billing office statement or SBO? The reason I ask is if they are coming on one statement then you really only need ot make one phone call. 

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[SunSprite]

Oh shoot, I'm sorry. I was hoping it might help you with an easier fix. 

[50Mickey]

Hang in there. Hopefully everything will work out. Don't stress.