If you’ve followed me since the spring of summer, you may remember that I injured my knee just before the pandemic really kicked off. After several rounds of physical therapy & multiple diagnostic procedures, it’s mostly (tho not completely) ok.

My health insurance OTOH... a

I have pretty decent health insurance through work that generally meets my needs. They paid for all my knee-related issues just fine, at first. But then everything changed...

... I started getting like weekly letters asking me to call the insurance company to let them know if my knee was injured in some way that meant they weren’t the ones responsible for paying (car accident, work injury, etc).

But it wasn’t & they were.

I was busy dealing with this whole pandemic thing, and also with getting my knee back to normal, and I knew there was no one else who was supposed to be paying for this, so I just ignored the letters.

Cut to this week — I got a letter from my insurance company saying if I don’t call and tell them who’s at fault for my knee within the next 10 days, they’re going to rescind payment of my claims & I’ll be left with the whole healthcare costs.

Which means on Monday, instead of finalizing a paper about how bad research can lead to bad decision making for COVID-19, I have to call my insurance company & tell them that: yes the claims they already paid were indeed their responsibility for paying & there is no take-backsies