u/taeiilll

Went to get a routine cleaning as a new patient so they did some imaging ASAP (D0350 twice? Is that normal?) anyways. On my treatment plan they said my insurance covers it 100%. But my insurance is not covering it at all and I owe $300+ now.

I understand it’s my responsibility to know what my insurance does or does not cover but they did these scans prior to letting me know about any of the costs. If I would’ve known then I wouldn’t have let that happen. What can I do here? Any advice?

Lately I’ve been having a lot of issues with my PI. Seemingly this year (I’m a 3rd year PhD candidate) he’s been a lot more snappy at the lab and harsher towards me than previously.

Few incidences that occurred:

- Whenever lab meeting occurs my lab mates get a few questions thrown at them but whenever I present, I get grilled to the core. Bunch of questions, some I can answer well, some that I can’t answer, and some that aren’t even relevant to my research that I also can’t answer. My lab mates even noticed themselves that I get bombarded with questions.

- I’m new at a lot of things so I often google around to figure out how to do things for example if I’m using a software for the first time, etc. But in our meetings I make a throwaway statement saying “I’ve never done XYZ before but I figured it out and…” and he’ll often interrupt me to be like “what? But it’s so easy. You have to do this this and this” which if he just let me finish, I would’ve explained that I already figured all that out and I’m working on it. But he constantly cuts me off to rant of certain things that I would’ve explained to him I’ve already done if he just let me.

- Just generally rude with no provocation. Will say “I don’t have time for this” whenever asked a question and he’s in a bad mood. (Mind you he always tell us to ask him questions if we need it) or will get upset when you need him to review/sign something you sent him DAYS ago but he still hasn’t looked at it because he waits till the last minute. (This usually is around grant deadlines but again he pushes everything to the last minute so things often over overlap with grant deadlines)

I’m not sure what went wrong here. I’m very productive in lab (PI has even stated this himself multiple times) and respectful. I do have ADHD which causes me to be forgetful for certain concepts (but I’m seeking treatment for it currently) so I get if he’s frustrated with that but I’m good at everything else I think. My PI used to compliment me often but now I’m just the one to pick on I guess.

It’s really affecting our relationship since I’m being to grow resentment towards him. What should I do? Bring it up to him? To my committee? Or just ride it out? It could be much worse, but I’d at least like to get treated a little bit better. Or maybe I’m just overreacting.