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Dec 3rd, 2008 at 11:59 am by Susie

I just found out that my former employer has switched his insurance plan to a cheaper one, and I now need a completely different set of insurance info as a result.

This most likely means that the authorization for an ankle MRI I finally got two weeks ago (the one I’ve been fighting to get for months) is invalid.

Oh, joy.

Posted in My So-Called Life, The Best Healthcare in the World

6 Responses to “Fun With COBRA”

on 03 Dec 2008 at 12:58 pm1misfit

Our small company found out that Health Assurance was going to raise our rate 76% for ‘09, so we applied to Aetna and Blue Cross (who we had until 2 years ago). Aetna would raise our rate 126%!! So for the coming year, we’re going back to Blue Cross with a $500 deductible.
If we ever get national one-payer… good riddance to these stinking parasites.
on 03 Dec 2008 at 1:18 pm2eunice henwood brown

This whole medical scenario is a total waste of time.
I just got back from the oral surgeon with my older daughter. She now has a cough and has to postpone the removal of her wisdom teeth. But … UH Oh..then there’s the knee surgery on the 18th… There are the Xrays, the MRI the pre-cert /physcial/bloodwork, the full mouth scan, pain management without a precription plan……I’m so over it!
on 03 Dec 2008 at 1:55 pm3orthoman

MRIs only cost about two, three hundred bucks per minute. No sweat!
on 03 Dec 2008 at 2:47 pm4Gibbon1

MRI’s are the biggest scam out there. Not the technology which is good, but the pricing. My GF had an MRI, the hospital billed her insurance $3000 and she had to pay 20% or $600 out of pocket. Well you can go to a testing lab and have the same MRI done, cash up front for wait for it…. $600.
on 03 Dec 2008 at 5:01 pm5eunice henwood brown

The MRI co-pay was as much as the surgi-center’s co-pay for a meniscus repair. MRI’s are very pricey. Why?
on 03 Dec 2008 at 6:26 pm6somegirl

my mri’s (brain, hip) have all been in the thousand dollar range.