myDeaconmyhand
First man to get a team of horses up Bear Mountain
This is text from a facebook post of a Wake alumnus from my class who is dealing with heart complications from Covid 19. If you know who this is, please don't post their name.
"Well guys. I’m royally screwed beyond belief. Last week I got a call from the cardiologist I saw that my health insurance didn’t go through despite when I called to make the appointment and when they saw me it was active. I called Hilton to sort it out and they told me that they went back and cut off my health benefits from March 31st forward since I hadn’t paid for the premiums that normally were taken out from my paychecks. Our hotel has been closed and we didn’t have access to the website where we can update the info for our mailing address. They were sending mail to an old address in CA so I didn’t get the notices for how to pay for my premiums and of course I’ve been preoccupied trying to get my health and life back in order. I told them I would pay whatever I owed in the premium amount that normally would be taken out from my paycheck but that I need the benefits badly to be covered since I’ve gone to the doctor 5x to the ER 2x and used an ambulance 1x and saw a specialist after being infected with covid. They told me they’d file and appeal to reinstate my benefits from April 1st - June 30th. Today I got notice that my appeal was denied and that the benefits are not able to be reinstated. Now I am going to owe tens of thousands of dollars for the services I received these past three months. I was covered! Now they took it away! How is it legal?! I said I would pay back anything I owed them which was way less than how much I will now owe being a self pay customer for all of those visits 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡 Thank you so much Cigna and Hilton. Like for real. Thank you for nothing!"
If you support the existence of the American Health Insurance Industry, you support things like this. You support inscrutable and cruel coverage rules, where a mailing address problem or a loss of a job can *RETROACTIVELY* cancel your health insurance coverage.
It's a cruel and inhumane system and there's no excuse for it.
"Well guys. I’m royally screwed beyond belief. Last week I got a call from the cardiologist I saw that my health insurance didn’t go through despite when I called to make the appointment and when they saw me it was active. I called Hilton to sort it out and they told me that they went back and cut off my health benefits from March 31st forward since I hadn’t paid for the premiums that normally were taken out from my paychecks. Our hotel has been closed and we didn’t have access to the website where we can update the info for our mailing address. They were sending mail to an old address in CA so I didn’t get the notices for how to pay for my premiums and of course I’ve been preoccupied trying to get my health and life back in order. I told them I would pay whatever I owed in the premium amount that normally would be taken out from my paycheck but that I need the benefits badly to be covered since I’ve gone to the doctor 5x to the ER 2x and used an ambulance 1x and saw a specialist after being infected with covid. They told me they’d file and appeal to reinstate my benefits from April 1st - June 30th. Today I got notice that my appeal was denied and that the benefits are not able to be reinstated. Now I am going to owe tens of thousands of dollars for the services I received these past three months. I was covered! Now they took it away! How is it legal?! I said I would pay back anything I owed them which was way less than how much I will now owe being a self pay customer for all of those visits 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡 Thank you so much Cigna and Hilton. Like for real. Thank you for nothing!"
If you support the existence of the American Health Insurance Industry, you support things like this. You support inscrutable and cruel coverage rules, where a mailing address problem or a loss of a job can *RETROACTIVELY* cancel your health insurance coverage.
It's a cruel and inhumane system and there's no excuse for it.