This has been an expensive period medically. I had surgery with a lot of follow-up (numerous casts, splints, many dr visits, xrays, etc) 2 years ago. That is almost paid off but I've added 2 psych stays, one of which was long and expensive.

I have Medicaid spenddown so they theoretically will cover a chunk of my February bills (I also had therapy, dental work, meds, etc so it was an expensive month if Medicaid doesn't pay. They didn't figure things out for my surgery and didn't pay then so I don't trust 'em).

Today I talked to billing (my hospital is one huge billing system so surgery, psych unit, and pdoc bills are all one) and she kept talking about this huge chunk of like $580 that I owe that she says Medicare declined. None of my billing statements have anything like this. I know logically that she did not seem to know what was going on and I think she was wrong. And in theory Medicaid picks it up anyway as long as it was in February.

But I'm so stressed about this. They boosted my payment to about 10% of my income. That is a LOT of money.

I can't stop thinking what if she's right and this big chunk is going to get added on. When she added things up it came to the same total I expected which says she is wrong but I won't know until I get this itemized statement she's allegedly sending.

Gotta stop thinking......