My husband had a $400 medical bill and went online to pay it. The website kept saying declined, but the charge went through thrice, and now the account is overdrawn. Hoping they don’t all settle.
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FFS woke up with cold symptoms again today and it’s barely been a month since I caught my last.
I did not get sick at all from 2020 through 2023 with the exception of catching mild cases of COVID twice: late 2022 and late 2023.
I think that era is over, and I’m back to the old pattern of catching a few colds a year again.
Will do a COVID test anyway to be sure.
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I’m annoyed at myself because I realized I choose between two microwave lunch possibilities based on one requiring me to pour something on the top and it needing to be microwaved for 30 more seconds.
i go in streaks where i apparently don’t press shift down well enough and all of my dollar amounts are preceded by “4” instead of “$”.
No, your premium is NOT “42 million” but rather “$2 million” like we talked about. i make so many typos that I’ve gotten pretty good at reading through those of others but that is one people should be able to discern but always need me to reconfirm.
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I’ll bet it makes you say, “@&4%*)^!&#@4(!”
I was heating food in the microwave, and left a cooked piece of bacon on a paper towel while the rest was heating. I walked out of the room for a brief moment, and I heard a loud commotion in the kitchen involving the cat and the dog. When I walked back to investigate, the bacon was gone.
The dog hasn’t countersurfed since a couple of times when she was a youngster, so no incidents with her for years. The cat however will countersurf sometimes. Pretty sure this was a tag team effort: he started it but obviously couldn’t wolf a whole slice of bacon that quickly, so he must have knocked it off the counter and the dog finished the job.
The cat is on a special diet, so hopefully he didn’t eat too much of it. I imagine both beasts will have the shits later.
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In my experience, providers don’t know how much things cost. I suspect this is also true of pharmacists. I work in value based care, talk about costs all the time. Most clinicians are, shocking, focused on treating patients. Plus the prices can vary wildly from one insurance company to the next.
I’d like to see pharmacies tackle this. Every time they find a $270 prescription and are able to substitute a $7 option, they keep half of the savings. It’s way more complicated than that in practice but I’m just hand waving here.
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Providers claim to know nothing. Pharmacists dont know until it runs through your insurance but notnsure they know how the alternative would rate in your pharm benefit. Its all so dumb
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I assume with enough resources you could put the reimbursement rates into data tables. And then set about trying to find things like liquid vs pills of the same drug, like NA was describing. And then maybe try to find groupings that are therapeutically equivalent. Now, switching to a different molecule means calling the physician back, I think, to change the script.
I think in theory, this is what PBMs should be doing, but in practice they don’t seem to be adding any real benefit, afaik.
Maybe I can get a job with Mark Cuban to try this.
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I didn’t have the ball seated in the chuck it so the ball flew out when I brought it back to throw, and the ball went into the gutter.
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how does Chuck feel about this?
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I slipped and fell onto my side this morning and bruised my ribs. I’ve had a cough the last couple of hours and they’re excruciating.
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It mildly bugs me that the current Wordle thread is titled “the next thousand” and not “the next ten thousand.”
well, what if the moderator sets a new thread after 1,000 games even if less than 10,000 responses?
Once the get to #2310, they could call it Wordle Revisited or Wordle - 2nd Time Around.
Is 2,310 the number of valid Wordle words?
I believe it’s currently 2309. They removed a handful of controversial words.
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I know it’s a longer list of words that we can type than they will use. Largely due to plurals (they won’t use FOOLS but we can certainly guess it). But also probably some mildly controversial words make the list of words we can guess but they won’t use.
But I didn’t know the number of words that they would use. I see we’re up to 1,290, so more than halfway through and on pace to finish in 2027.
The nose piercing I have had for 3.5 years is infected and doesn’t look like it will be healing on its own, so I am taking out the piercing. Sad.
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Got one of these today…376 miles (605 km) from home…
Read here for how that story ended.
When I got home, I see that daughter’s car also received one, but that was expected.
We were going to take her car to 5814-Family-Christmas-Party, which is about a 1,248 mile (2008 km) road trip . When I went to check the tire inflation, I saw a big screw stuck in there. Thank goodness the tire wasn’t rotated between π/2 and 3π/2 radians or I might not have seen it.
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