L'Shana Tovah!

[cornerofmadness]

Here's to a good new year to all my friends who celebrate it. As scary as it is right now, let's hope this is rock bottom and we're on our way back up.

So i called that hospital today. It IS the one in Pittsburgh. I've been there exactly once. They had my SS# right and my address(which is ODD since I didn't not live here when I went to that hospital. I was living in FL and went up there for a second opinion for my hand injury) My phone # was utterly wrong.

I told her look I'm a doctor. I know these studies were for autoimmune disease so who was the doctor (thinking who knows maybe my endocrinologist sent work out...) dont' know the doctor. the health insurance billed is NOT mine. the long and short of it is i have no clue. Now they have to audit it. ARGH. they there is another person with my name in the system. My first name is not overly common and yet...this is the THIRD time this has happened to me.

Back in Columbus there was another person with my name shopping around town without her JC Penny's card and they would just look up her name (why NOT her SS# I have no idea) and bill me for about 300$ in baby stuff.

When i lived in FL there was someone in Tucson with my name AND birthday down to the year and she had the SAME illnesses as me and filled her pills two days before i did and Blue Cross wouldn't pay for mine.

and now this...just shows you get MY name and be ill your whole life...sheesh

had a nightmare last night. Fell out of bed. I have a queen sized bed. I dont' remember the dream but it must have been a doozy.

on the positive note my blood sugar was utterly normal this morning. I can't remember when that has happened last. so WHOO HOO. And i'm just killing time at work until I get to go to the haunted ariel theatre's first meeting. whee

Comments

[dknightshade.livejournal.com]

That's crazy that you keep running into these situations. Too bad they all cause you problems. There is another woman who works for my company at a site in Lousiana who has my name, which I thought was odd because our first name is unusual and my last name is a very unusual French name (although not as unusual in cajun country).

[a2zmom.livejournal.com]

I can't belive how often you've gotten other people's bills. You are born under an unlucky star, I think.

Thanks for the New Year wishes.

[makd.livejournal.com]

I feel your pain.

For awhile there - a period of about 10 years - I was diagnosed with cancer twice, and with HPV. All three diagnoses were in error. The cause: there were three women with the same first name, last name, and initial living here on Long Island.

My insurance co. couldn't do anything to help me, since all three women appeared to have the same legal name. Although I used my first name, my birth surname, and my husband's surname all the time, legally my first name and last name and the initial of my birth name were my legal names.

The solution was to legally change my name! It cost me a whopping $250, but my name was legally hyphenated; I changed my name with my insurance company (and the Motor Vehicle Company, and everything else).

Result? That was 4 years ago --- no new misdiagnoses, since the doctors offices must now file my last name in a unique category.

IOW: Let's say my name is Jane Doe Smith. Legally, it's Jane D. Smith - the same as the other two Jane D Smiths. After legal action, it's now Jane Doe-Smith.

A little change, a big result.

You may have to do that to prevent future misdiagnoses, since the health care deliverers can't legally use SS#s anymore to differentiate between patients.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

I know.

And I got ANOTHER deadbeat phone call today who isn't me. I'm going to start keeping a tally but I'm over 20 names

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

I got ANOTHER deadbeat loan person call today for someone I've never heard of. I believe my tally is up to 20 people. I'm gonna start keeping record

I can pinpoint when the bad luck started. 1993 Madri Gras. I accidetantlly bit off the golden baby's head in my piece of king cake...

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

nods. My last name is common enough but Dana's not that common.

[wildrider.livejournal.com]

There's someone here in Phoenix with my name who goes to my doctor, but they have the brains to always check by our birthdate to make sure which one they have.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

geez,good thing that they do. It's not like i'm not asked my birthdate every time. So how do we have everything BUT my birthdate and phone number right because it IS coming up under my social

[ishte.livejournal.com]

Why can't they find someone with your name and accidentally pay you their Lottery payment or something? hahaha...

Also that drug they put you on that has now been proven to cause possibly permanent pancreatic damage... is there a class action? maybe you can sue them for oh... *shrug* I don't know... about $250,000 or something.

See.... nightmares that make you fall out of bed, just suck lots. Fortunately, I sleep on the floor! so I can't really fall out of bed. Hee hee hee.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

yeah no one GOOD calls me by mistake

yes to the class action will be going to get blood tests

true you have the advantage on me there

[wildrider.livejournal.com]

Weird.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

extremely

the one in TUcson is still the one who weirds me out the most by havingmy exact name, date of birth and illnesses

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

i do it a lot.