Take that, Insurance denying fuckers

**Note: I have a small Fibro fog issue today, so please excuse any typos as I don’t feel like waiting to write this.**

Wanna hear read a funny? Remember when they were trying to decide if I had cancer¹? Well, last week I got a letter from my insurance company. It reads, in part:

We are in receipt of a claim for the above referenced patient. In order to determine if a pre-existing exclusion applies to these services, we require additional information.
[...]Date Span: 11/07/2008-5/07/2009
1. Did the patient have medical coverage for the date span above?
YES ____ NO ____
2. If yes, please submit evidence of coverage (a certificate of prior coverage from the prior insurance carrier or a letter from the prior carrier with dates and types of coverage held.)
3. If no, please complete the attached questionnaire.

[Stuff that's unimportant to this post.]

When I got the letter, I called the insurance company to see what I should check. I had insurance until March 20, 2009. Since I was only uncovered for a little over a month I wasn’t sure how to proceed. I was told to check option #1 and fill out the questionnaire. Crap. I didn’t know what claim was being potentially denied nor could I remember all of my doctor’s appointments. I knew, since this was the period where my marital status was up in the air, that I hadn’t seen my rheumy, but what about the others?

So, I called all my doctors. You’d think they’d want me to pay them for the dates of service, but they were pretty understanding. I had only been to the doctor for my ganglion cyst (did I even mention that on my blog?). I couldn’t get a hold of my Gyn until today and guess what? Hadn’t been there during that time period either!! Woo-hoo! Take that, coverage denying fuckers.

Of course, they’ll probably deny it anyway. Even though I didn’t go without coverage for a full 63 days, this particular insurance company is so sucky they’ve reportedly told one patient they hoped they didn’t die when they denied cancer treatments for that patient². Meh.

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1. I don’t, thank all that’s good and holy. And, yes, I will repeat that every time I bring it up. [↩]
2. Which is the fault of both the insurance company AND the doctor, if you ask me. Why couldn’t the doctor lower the costs and take payments for something that dire? HUH? [↩]

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