{"id":53,"date":"2008-07-15T12:36:49","date_gmt":"2008-07-15T16:36:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/?p=53"},"modified":"2008-07-15T12:42:12","modified_gmt":"2008-07-15T16:42:12","slug":"healthcare-providers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/2008\/07\/healthcare-providers\/","title":{"rendered":"Healthcare ‘Providers’"},"content":{"rendered":"

I don’t think I’m saying anything here that people don’t already know, but…<\/p>\n

Healthcare providers are EVIL.<\/p>\n

I just spent an hour and half talking to vairous ‘health care professionals’ and ‘rapid resolution experts’ trying to deal with a charge of 61.37 that a clinic thinks I still owe them from September of last year.<\/p>\n

The reason for that?\u00a0 The insurance people say it’s because the doctor I went to was ‘out of network’. I had thought he was in network.<\/p>\n

You can see how I might have been confused on this point last year, considering he’s listed on their website as being a doctor that is ‘in network’ (!!!)<\/p>\n

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I know.\u00a0 People go through this crap all the time.\u00a0 I’m happy it was only 60 bucks.<\/p>\n

Just for fun, we’ll take a jab at their homepage:<\/p>\n

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‘United Healthcare: Bring us your last sprig of hope.\u00a0 We’ll kill it for you.\u00a0 Simply.\u00a0 Smartly.\u00a0 Together.’<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I don’t think I’m saying anything here that people don’t already know, but… Healthcare providers are EVIL. I just spent an hour and half talking to vairous ‘health care professionals’ and ‘rapid resolution experts’ trying to deal with a charge of 61.37 that a clinic thinks I still owe them from September of last year. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[62,68,67],"class_list":["post-53","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rants-and-raves","tag-completely-retarded","tag-health-care","tag-jerks"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions\/58"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}