Posted January 7th, 2005, always

January 7th, 2005

I’ve been plugging away at World of Warcraft this week. My human warrior character is up to Level 9 (out of 60 possible) I have never played this type of game and I am still undecided on my feeling about it. The game is incredibly complex, incredibly large and requires incredible amounts of time if you want to progress through it. Some aspects of it are a bit slow and boring for me. I’m doing a lot of repetitive killing right now and I didn’t enjoy having to walk 5 minutes to get back to my corpse and revive after I was killed by animals one time and a kobald miner another. However the interaction with literally thousands of players opens up a near infinite number of possibilities so I think that is the draw. I’ll keep plugging away and see if I drift closer or further away from it. The time requirements really can whack things out of balance, something I try pretty hard to maintain.

It’s hard to believe it has been going on that long.

You know, you always have to have your guard up to prevent people from dicking you over.  Over the weekend we got a bill for $128  from the lab that did the pathology work on the skin sample the dermatologist sent to them.  As I inspected the bill I thought it was odd that I saw no mention of insurance paying any portion of it.  I reviewed the papers I had received from our insurance company and they confirmed that the dermatologist bill was submitted and paid for but nothing from this lab.  So I called them.

I asked the rep why I received this bill without it being submitted to my insurance company?  She asked me to confirm the information.  She said that although they had the right group and plan ID, they had the wrong address to submit the claim to.  She said I could disregard the bill for now as they will submit it to insurance.  If I was in a worse mood I would have taken this up with her.  I would have asked her why they did not contact me for updated information if the claim didn’t go through instead of saying “F it, we will just bill the person and see if he is dumb enough to just pay it.  That is the easy way.”   This shit burns me up. 

Our dentist office has pulled similar stunts where they billed us for stuff they also submitted to insurance and just hadn’t received back yet.  What would they have done if we were naive enough to not investigate this, refund us the money if they got payment from the insurance company as well?  Yea right.  You always, always, always, have to assume someone is trying to screw you over.  It’s unfortunate.