Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Someone gets to have a bad day... not me, though!

The anesthesia bill was clearly coded wrong. The very nice customer service rep I spoke with says they will re-code it, resubmit it to the insurer, return the payment the insurer already made, and "generate a new responsibility" for me.

Query: the CSR was able to pull up my diagnosis on the computer and see that it didn't match the type of surgery for which I was billed. Why couldn't any other parts of The System do that? It shouldn't take a programming genius to restrict the list of valid codes based on the diagnostic code.

1 comment:

  1. Because computers are tricksy magical devices that do odd things once you turn your back on them. ;)

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