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409. Hospital and Medical Insurance Travails!

I started working from 1991 and all through, the medical insurance was being taken care of by the various companies I worked in. In 1999, I was in between jobs and that is the time when I got into a trouble and had to be hospitalized.   There was no medical insurance for me and I had to pay around 40K from my pocket for the hospital visit.   Within a week of discharge, I called an insurance company and went for a private medical insurance for me and my family.   After getting another job, I got insured by the company. But I still continued paying the premium for my private medical insurance.   After some years, I changed my insurer to a different company and maintained paying the insurance premiums. Continuing from the previous blog, by 1230pm I was told by the duty nurse that all the files have been sent to the Billing team and now the ball was in their court.  I was told that the insurance would take some 3-4 hours. Just to be sure, I called up the billing p...