You're charging me what now?

I haven't written in a while... in fact I missed the entire month of July.

I just wanted to say that I will have an M.D. in 9 months and I all but have an M.B.A. in Healthcare Management and I just had to call my health insurance company and the billing office at my doctor's to dispute a claim/payment/bill for the first time, and I have never been so confused! I just spent an hour on the phone with two people, a dozen pieces of paper in front of me, searching google in between. You bundled what CPT code what with what discount adjustment what?

This health system is broken.

But on the bright side, I was successful, and as Glen said I just earned myself $318 for an hour's work, the best wage I've ever gotten! (We'll ignore that it was really my money to begin with.)