So if one misses a session, my pdoc's office has your charge card on file and automatically charges it for $300.
These are for 20 minute appts. So you can only be 10 minutes late or you cannot be seen. I had an appt this afternoon.
The guy I have been dating and I were eating lunch upstairs at my place and were walking back downstairs so I could go to my appt. He slipped and fell down 3/4 of my stairs while carrying 2 plates (well, now one is broken...and a glass). He was in a crazy amount of pain, and I wasn't sure what to do (he has no health insurance at this time, although his best friend is a chiropractor and his brother an ER dr, but he is a few hours away.)
Anyway, he just kept saying "OW, DAMN that hurts", etc, and cursing and trying to move his back, and inside I am FREAKING because I am thinking "Cha-ching!" $300 on my card. Which was also annoying and made me feel guilty because my thoughts should NOT have been there, but I can't afford that!
I eventually got to my appt exactly 10 minutes late. I told my pdoc what I was freaking out about, and he said that, so I knew in the future, if something happens like that and he has to go to the ER, just bring in the dr's note (WTH? ) and they won't charge my card. I explained he had no health insurance so I didn't know what he was going to do, and my pdoc was just like, "Oh." So apparently telling them what happened isn't enough not to be charged $300 for a missed 20 minute appt. Seriously?
I have not missed any appt ever and have done everything my pdoc has asked me to do, as in, tried about 15 different antidepressents that have all made me feel worse and super sick with the side effects.
I am so damn irritated right now.
And I think the sorta boyfriend is entering the whiney phase so I can't tell how bad off he really is.
The whole thing is horrible and I hate my pdoc right now.