so. FB Collective Genius required here, please. Howard University Hospital (aka Huh! aka The Place That Didnt Tell Me My Doctor Quit aka THE PLACE THAT LOST MY MOMS ASHES) is back in my life and its not good. they sent me a bill, 18 months after the appointment-that-didnt-happen-because-when-I-got-there-the-Doctor-was-no-longer-employed-with-them, a bill for that very appointment at which I did not, in fact, see the doctor (I guess they waited 18 months to bill me for the non-event in the hopes I would have, in the intervening time, received a blow to the head). while I had the billing department on the phone I said oh while youre here, can you tell me whether anyone ever solved the mystery of why, when you all checked me in [in February 2013, for those who dont know the knee saga], my SSN pinged someone elses file? so she enters my SSN and says Oh wow. some guy named Barrington West (seems to be an alias, cant find him on Google) has used my SSN at Howard several times and once as recently as this year. no one ever solved this for me while I was there nearly two years ago. and no one, any time Barrington has been in there since then, has entered his data and said Huh!* [*haha] This is the same SSN as that woman who didnt want the dilaudid, we should solve this. so someone from Patient Accounts is supposedly looking into it and Im waiting for her to call, and given my history with them I think Patient Accounts might be short for Be Patient: Accounts are Confusing to Us and We Wont Call You Back Until 2018. what do I do here? Ive never been billed for Barrington, Ive apparently never had him encroach on my financials with my SSN, but at this point its clearly not data entry error, Barrington goes in there and rattles off my SSN (why?). do I call the police? do I call the SS Administration? do I give HUH at least a day to solve it before I do any other thing? do I sue HUH? yesterday I nearly posted a whimsical status about being way more invested in the random and trivial (texting about Ghostbusters with a complete stranger) than the substantive (unable to keep from giggling during a call from my bank). I have the feeling that trait is biting me in the ass here: I dont feel like I have any real-world sense of how serious this is or isnt. would you be screaming down the phones, unable even to stop to make a lunch? or would you be posting a status about it while you drank coffee and and calmly fixed your split infinitives?
Posted on: Thu, 04 Dec 2014 16:10:37 +0000
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