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franklin

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Rant thread.

I'm staring at a bill from the anesthesiologist for an epidermal. Now, I don't know about you, but for us it takes a little while to get our stuff together after having a child. We got the bill who knows when and paid it exactly 61 days after delivery. Is this late? I don't know and I don't care. We paid the damn thing promptly, something that seems like a rarity with birth delivery bills these days.

What pisses me off is we paid it a couple days after they added a $1.04 finance charge that we didn't know about. So now these ******* pencil pushers add another $1.00 finance charge on top of the $1.04 finance charge and send us another bill. Maybe I'm wrong, but I'm not sure it's financially efficient to pay the medical administrators and staff and mail and accounting systems and whatever to add a finance charge for $2.04 and worry about collecting it.

I don't care if I owe them $2.04 or I overpaid $2.04. Don't send me a check and don't send me a nasty collection post card over a $4.14 "underpayment" because your dental office had miscommunications with the insurance company. Sit on it and we'll figger it out next time we're in, mmkay.

BTW, they don't give a "due by" date or anything, just an "amount due".

I want to give the hospital a $100 bill and tell them to save $100 in mail costs and the headache of the next 50 patients who don't pay within some unknown pay by window.
 
Every now and then I get these 2-3 day late payment penalty from the IRD (equivalent to IRS).


What they do though is they'll let you know that there is a penalty fee of $2.04 - but it'll say that the amount has been written off as it is minimal which is pretty cool.
 
moevillini said:
Here's one for the Stupid Pet Peeves thread: getting refund checks for 36 cents
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And how am I supposed to attention whore by posting in that thread? ;)

In my teens, I paid a $2.64 Blockbuster collection nastygram with 3 credit card payments of $0.88 each, then never rented from them again. It was juvenile, but they went bankrupt over stupid decisions like that.
 
It's probably all automated. Some machine added, subtracted and sent out those charges. Pretty stupid. My pet peeve is ATM fees. I have paid a total of probably 4.00 in ATM cash fees in my whole life. I'd rather starve to death than pay it. As a matter of fact, I remember $2.00 - it was a what was then Franklin Covey Field and my kid asked me for ice cream and I didn't have any cash. ****ing rip off.

Speaking of hospital bills, my youngest one stuck a tictac candy up her nose. What do you do? Wait it out to melt? It was a mint, so she was crying, "daddy it hurts my nose". So we drive to the ER (Sunday night, the closest 24 hr. urgent care I know of is Antelope Drive, 40 mins drive). Of course I pay 150 copay. Then a doctor gets some fine tweezers, reaches in, takes it out, we are out in literally 5 mins. My EOB says the ****ing ER charged my insurance 450 for "surgery". Now I am thankful for the doc having handy slim tweezers and getting it out. But "surgery"? 450.00? what a ripoff.

Thanks Obama!
 
dodo said:
It's probably all automated. Some machine added, subtracted and sent out those charges. Pretty stupid. My pet peeve is ATM fees. I have paid a total of probably 4.00 in ATM cash fees in my whole life. I'd rather starve to death than pay it. As a matter of fact, I remember $2.00 - it was a what was then Franklin Covey Field and my kid asked me for ice cream and I didn't have any cash. ****ing rip off.

Speaking of hospital bills, my youngest one stuck a tictac candy up her nose. What do you do? Wait it out to melt? It was a mint, so she was crying, "daddy it hurts my nose". So we drive to the ER (Sunday night, the closest 24 hr. urgent care I know of is Antelope Drive, 40 mins drive). Of course I pay 150 copay. Then a doctor gets some fine tweezers, reaches in, takes it out, we are out in literally 5 mins. My EOB says the ****ing ER charged my insurance 450 for "surgery". Now I am thankful for the doc having handy slim tweezers and getting it out. But "surgery"? 450.00? what a ripoff.

Thanks Obama!
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No F'ing way I'd take my kid to urgent care for that, and I'd die for my kids without hesitation. Farmer blow that **** out of there, or don't -- you put it in there, you can get it out.
 
We just did a "kid put something up his nose" thing. I can't even remember what it was, but there was no way I was going to the er for it. I have needle nose pliers for that ****. I just pinched his nose at the top and pushed down. Eventually it came low enough to grab it.
 
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E.J. Wells said:
No F'ing way I'd take my kid to urgent care for that, and I'd die for my kids without hesitation. Farmer blow that **** out of there, or don't -- you put it in there, you can get it out.
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This. Or after a couple minutes, once it's dissolved some, tell your kid to rear back and snort as powerfully as hell. It'll just come back into their mouth.
 
Yeah, of course everyone has advice on his own. First, my kid is 3. Try reason with a 3 year old. Second, as she started crying she sniffed it up to the top of the nasal cavity, and yes, I did tell her to blow as hard as she can but it didn't come out. And finally who knows if she is going to develop sinus problems or something by having whatever **** is in the tictacs melt all over there. Probably overracted, true. BTW the ER docs said its better to be taken out because of risk of irritation to the nasal cavity and worse. Or did they want the 450 "surgery". Who knows, its my kid and i take no chances.
 
If an anesthesiologist charged me for an epidermal, I wouldn't pay.
 
dodo said:
Yeah, of course everyone has advice on his own. First, my kid is 3. Try reason with a 3 year old. Second, as she started crying she sniffed it up to the top of the nasal cavity, and yes, I did tell her to blow as hard as she can but it didn't come out. And finally who knows if she is going to develop sinus problems or something by having whatever **** is in the tictacs melt all over there. Probably overracted, true. BTW the ER docs said its better to be taken out because of risk of irritation to the nasal cavity and worse. Or did they want the 450 "surgery". Who knows, its my kid and i take no chances.
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dodo said:
Yeah, of course everyone has advice on his own. First, my kid is 3. Try reason with a 3 year old. Second, as she started crying she sniffed it up to the top of the nasal cavity, and yes, I did tell her to blow as hard as she can but it didn't come out. And finally who knows if she is going to develop sinus problems or something by having whatever **** is in the tictacs melt all over there. Probably overracted, true. BTW the ER docs said its better to be taken out because of risk of irritation to the nasal cavity and worse. Or did they want the 450 "surgery". Who knows, its my kid and i take no chances.
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Your kids are cute and nice, if I remember correctly, so I see why you would do that. My little Satanists, on the other hand, are not worthy.
 
dodo said:
Yeah, of course everyone has advice on his own. First, my kid is 3. Try reason with a 3 year old. Second, as she started crying she sniffed it up to the top of the nasal cavity, and yes, I did tell her to blow as hard as she can but it didn't come out. And finally who knows if she is going to develop sinus problems or something by having whatever **** is in the tictacs melt all over there. Probably overracted, true. BTW the ER docs said its better to be taken out because of risk of irritation to the nasal cavity and worse. Or did they want the 450 "surgery". Who knows, its my kid and i take no chances.
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Dude, I get it. And in all honesty, we all know that if we couldn't get the crap out, we'd end up at the ER. We're all so full of **** our breath stinks.

Ironically enough, it was my almost 3 year old that shoved something up his nose.
 
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