If I don't pay they will send it to collections since it is technically WAY past 90 days.

They didn't bother to call me back. They get until next Tuesday or Wednesday and I'm calling Medicare to find out about the re-billing "deadline" that I know doesn't exist and how I can file a claim or an appeal if that is even possible. I'll also be complaining to Medicare as I'm pretty sure that as a provider they've broken some kind of rules.

If the surgeon had asked at my last visit where I was working and followed my "I'm on disability now" reply with an incredulous "because of your ANKLE?" (in a "you hypochondriac" tone..even though he knew full well that I worked as an occupational therapist lifting people from the day after I blew out my ankle in my therapist's parking lot until the last time he'd seen me, needing only a sturdy brace to prevent me from falling with a patient and that I had bipolar disorder) or if he hadn't been so far off in diagnosing me I might not be so mad. But I got crappy care and now I'm stuck paying it off for what will take nearly 2 years unless I can get the claim through myself.

I am also hoping to be able to report them to the Better Business Bureau after I know what is going on. I do not like companies treating me like crap and I'm manic enough still to be happy to fight.

But I don't really WANT to fight........such a pain. And so unnecessary. Medicare has paid slowly but all my other providers for the same problem got paid and if they didn't either they didn't submit the claim right or they made a mistake in filling out the forms. Otherwise my home health, 6 months of PT (including PT right after I saw them), dr visits, 5 casts, a boot and a brace, anesthesia, surgery, etc. wouldn't be paid. All the hospital is left trying to get covered now I think is the surgeon's bill. It's taken 11 months but we're almost there. Except for these idiots.

I need to shut up. I can go on about this forever because it makes me so mad. I thought this was a good dr but as soon as he went into practice for himself (literally 2 weeks after I saw him last and this is billed through his new practice) it all got crappy.

And now I need to fill pill boxes which makes me grumpier. But then I get to try my sample nail wraps which will either be a horrible disaster or really fun.