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It's Tuesday! We survived Monday! I did not sleep well last night. I woke up basically every hour for some reason. Okay, at 4am the reason had a name, but otherwise, I just was up and down. Hopefully, tonight I'll sleep better, because I am le tired.
I found out that there's a show called Drunk Dracula, where the lead performer takes four shots, and then tries to get through the play. It sounds entertaining, and I'm tempted to make the trek down to DC to see it.
Yesterday was a Monday. Very busy, even with taking a bit of time to fill in some appointments, I still topped 50 calls. I'm sure today will be another busy day. Hopkins contract with United Heathcare expired, and we're getting a ton of cancellations. We are asking for them to be less shitty, and they're saying that if they're less shitty to us, they would have to be less shitty overall, and they can't do that. It was costing us a lot of valuable patient time to chase down prior auths for shit they should have done the first time. They, of course, are saying we don't care about patients, just being special. But since the largest OB/GYN group in the region also refused to resign with them, I think we all know whose fault it is.
I'm going to try to go to the farmer's market after work, and pick up a few vegetables. The BIL wants a cantelope, so I will try. This'll be my last visit until after Jess' surgery, as we're limiting exposure until then. Even so, I'll mask.
We're down to 16 days until the teets get yeeted. We got the official approval letter from EHP, our healthcare plan, stating that Jess was approved for surgery. I called the hospital, and they said our cost is under $1200, which is amazing. They're billing the insurance $22k. I'm so grateful that Hopkins allows Jess the opportunity to get this surgery. It's so nice to have a plan that considers this a non-elective surgery, and will cover it at 90%+. I swear, I'm going to frame the approval notice.
When Jess made their decision to go with full top surgery, and not reduction, I got on the Reddit community for top surgery, and some of the stories are just heartbreaking. Surgeries cancelled, and prohibitive costs, and unsupportive family. I asked Jess if they wanted me to take the morning off on Thursday for their final virtual preop with Dr. Chen. They said they think they have it.
Okay, time for me to go forth and get myself more coffee. Everyone have an awesome Tuesday!
I found out that there's a show called Drunk Dracula, where the lead performer takes four shots, and then tries to get through the play. It sounds entertaining, and I'm tempted to make the trek down to DC to see it.
Yesterday was a Monday. Very busy, even with taking a bit of time to fill in some appointments, I still topped 50 calls. I'm sure today will be another busy day. Hopkins contract with United Heathcare expired, and we're getting a ton of cancellations. We are asking for them to be less shitty, and they're saying that if they're less shitty to us, they would have to be less shitty overall, and they can't do that. It was costing us a lot of valuable patient time to chase down prior auths for shit they should have done the first time. They, of course, are saying we don't care about patients, just being special. But since the largest OB/GYN group in the region also refused to resign with them, I think we all know whose fault it is.
I'm going to try to go to the farmer's market after work, and pick up a few vegetables. The BIL wants a cantelope, so I will try. This'll be my last visit until after Jess' surgery, as we're limiting exposure until then. Even so, I'll mask.
We're down to 16 days until the teets get yeeted. We got the official approval letter from EHP, our healthcare plan, stating that Jess was approved for surgery. I called the hospital, and they said our cost is under $1200, which is amazing. They're billing the insurance $22k. I'm so grateful that Hopkins allows Jess the opportunity to get this surgery. It's so nice to have a plan that considers this a non-elective surgery, and will cover it at 90%+. I swear, I'm going to frame the approval notice.
When Jess made their decision to go with full top surgery, and not reduction, I got on the Reddit community for top surgery, and some of the stories are just heartbreaking. Surgeries cancelled, and prohibitive costs, and unsupportive family. I asked Jess if they wanted me to take the morning off on Thursday for their final virtual preop with Dr. Chen. They said they think they have it.
Okay, time for me to go forth and get myself more coffee. Everyone have an awesome Tuesday!
