u/harristusc

I have had many colonoscopies because I have Crohn's. I've also had several doctors because of moves, doctor retiring, etc. I always have had really good doctors, like Mayo Clinic, Vanderbilt, etc. In my many colonoscopies, it's always been split dose, except many years ago, but even then it was a late evening start. I've done the same miralax prep from each doctor and always been clear. I've recently moved and my gp recommended a new G.I. doctor. I met him and he seemed fine. My husband had his once a decade colonoscopy with this guy and it was a great experience except for the prep. This doctor chooses a weird administration of the miralax/ducolax prep. He has you take 8 ducolax instead of 4, but you take 4 at 8:00 am and 4 at 5:00pm. He even has you finish the miralax by 10am the day before! I told my husband this would give too much time for more waste to form and sure enough, he was not completely clear for his colonoscopy. Well, now it's my turn and I plan on just doing the prep with the same medications that has always worked for me. I was talking to a friend and she said I should get doctor approval, but I don't see why I would. The medications are the same. That just gives him the chance to blame me if anything does go bad and I know that his crazy way won't work. I don't even know why he would do it that way when the American College of Gastroenterology guidelines are for split dose. But even if he doesn't like that for some reason, why on earth would he have you finish all of your drink by 10:00 am? Anyway, what would you do?

So I have a situation with two piece pieces of medical debt that I’m not sure how serious it can be if I don’t pay. I always have to pay a lot of money out-of-pocket every year for medical issues because I have Crohn’s disease and other issues. But about 2 1/2 years ago, I had two separate situations where I just don’t feel I should have to pay. The first one was at LabCorp. I had switched my insurance and I knew that quest lab was 100% covered for sure and LabCorp was also listed as covered on my insurance, but I had not used them yet with a new insurance so I wasn’t sure. LabCorp and quest are very close together, but LabCorp had an opening for blood work quicker. So I went to LabCorp and I said here is my new insurance. I am concerned to make sure it is covered 100% before I get any blood work done. The lady that helped me honestly had a really bad attitude and just was like I was bothering her by trying to make sure and she did a very quick like yeah it’s covered when she saw the name of my insurance and I said well, can you check a little more thoroughly because I’m really concerned about it because I know if I go to quest down the street it is covered and I don’t wanna unexpected Bill. I don’t think she really checked. So I get my blood work and I get a bill for 270 some dollars and I call them back and they say yeah it turns out it wasn’t covered all the way and I explained what happened and it was pretty much well too bad. So I didn’t pay it. The other situation is a lot more money. I had to go get a colonoscopy and it was covered through my insurance. When I went to do the procedure of the day of they make you sign a paper. Now mind you I already have Crohn’s disease and going through the process of colonoscopy prep is horrible for me like anyone else, but even worse because it flares my condition. I saw on the form it said that they’re like was $2200 not paid by insurance and I said no it’s covered by insurance and she goes well. That’s the amount but you know this is just a preliminary. I’m sure you can work it out and I honestly was in a situation where it’s like what am I gonna do? I’m already prepped so I did the procedure and afterwards I called my insurance. My insurance said it was covered 100%. But I received a bill for the $2200 so I called the Gastro and they said yeah that was what the insurance didn’t pay. So I called the insurance back and they said yes it’s because the billing number was wrong. Just have your doctors office change a couple digits on the billing number and you will be covered 100%. The doctors office refused to do it. I called the insurance again and the lady was like so nice. She was like I can’t even believe this. It literally will take them five seconds and it will save you $2200 if your own insurance company saying just go ahead and do it what is their problem but they would not do it. Now they sent it to collections. I didn’t feel it was right for someone on a fixed income to have to pay $2200 that was 100% covered by my very expensive insurance. How bad is this likely to get? Well it destroy my credit? Can I get sued in court?

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