Earlier today, someone was in the office and one of the girls asked him what he does. He said he works for XYZ collection agency (not the actual name). Two of the 3 people in the office beside me said they have accounts in collections with that company and went on to discuss it like it was perfectly normal.
If I had any accounts in collections, I certainly wouldn't be bragging about it and discussing it openly like that. I'd be ashamed of myself for allowing that to happen and not being able to pay my bills. Back when I had student loans, due to accounting problems, I had accounts get turned over to collections by mistake a couple of times and I spent hours on the phone getting those accounts straightened out as soon as possible.
Maybe I'm the strange one.
I'm not in collections. Is that weird?
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Major illness can put any middle class person in financial ruin.
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For example, I think it was in 2000, I went for my yearly PAP test (covered by my ins.) and MENTIONED to the doc that I was experiencing hot flashes. Guess what? Instead of coding the visit as a PAP he coded the hot flashes! Insurance wouldn't pay (this took a loooong time to find out why) and by the time I started to get to the bottom of it the doc had retired!
For those who don't know, the doc is the ONLY one who can go back and have the procedure recoded so that the insurer can process the claim.
No one was able to help me and I simply will not pay this claim. It was their mistake and they can chase me to eternity for it.
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