the endless saga of the medical bills continues to haunt me
on Wednesday afternoon (just 3 days shy of a year after my surgery) I got a billing from the pathology lab
not a big surprise that the envelope had arrived, I get a monthly billing as I've made an arrangement with them to pay this
the big surprise was when I opened the envelope -- and a bill that I expected to say "total due $180" said "total due $672"!!
WHAT!!??
and of course it was after 5 pm when the mail man brought this little bundle of snakes, so I couldn't do anything about it but stew until Thursday morning
so I called them, and by then I'd figured out that the difference was that for some reason they had backed out all of the payments made by the Colorado Indigent Care Program -- and I was not pleased
the person on the other end was pleasant -- and just as puzzled as I was -- she simply couldn't see anything on her computer screen that gave her any reason they had done this
she told me she would look into it
yesterday morning I talked with them again
seems they had experienced a little computer glitch and that now all of those CICP payments had been reposted and the actual balance due is $180
makes me wonder how much money they actually rake in because some folks don't watch as carefully as I do and wouldn't have challenged it
it's another small victory!
and then there is the inevitable
earlier in the year I spent some time fussing over rather or not to continue paying for the domain name for my website
I decided to do it mostly because I've had it for a long time and because I don't want someone else putting X-rated stuff on it if I give it up
the deal is, however, that if I'm going to pay for it, I really should do something with it, even if I can't see much happening with it
so I'm starting to think about what I should do with it and what "look" it should morph into next
a good idea would be great here, I just don't really have any
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