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[nenjin]

Or why it can take my car up to 5 minutes to recognize my iphone despite the fact it's plugged directly in to the USB.

[martinuzz]

The innocent mind cannot even begin to comprehend the depravity of that which just sneakily floated out from the undercrofts of my biomachinery

[Eric Blank]

Okay I get that you're describing a fart but the wording makes it ambiguous enough that my first thought was like a cockroach or something crawling out from under your biochem lab table.

[hector13]

I thought he was developing horrific species around his perineum, but the fart makes more sense.

[Great Order]

Found out the long lighters will give you a small electric shock if you touch the metal nozzle when you're pulling the trigger.

[ChairmanPoo]

Found out the long lighters will give you a small electric shock if you touch the metal nozzle when you're pulling the trigger.

Here's the weirdest thing: if you touch them with your tongue it doesn't!
(waits expectantly) >:-)

[Great Order]

It's been in the hall's kitchen for about 8 months, I'm not touching that with anything more than my finger.

[Rolan7]

The innocent mind cannot even begin to comprehend the depravity of that which just sneakily floated out from the undercrofts of my biomachinery

mood

[Frumple]

Check in the mail from the hospital I use for lab work. Says refund for overpayment of copay, and I'm, just, like.

That's a neat hat trick. I'd love to know how I did it when I haven't had health insurance since like 2011 :V

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I'm guessing it's just the generic term they've got for someone noticing whatever overcharge was thrown at me when I was there, but... still. Gonna' call tomorrow to make sure depositing that wouldn't be sticking an appendage into someone else's auditing problem.

E: New wtf, first time this dog's ever done it, critter just straight up ate their flea/heartworm/etc med pill thing. Didn't have to coat it in peanut butter, stick it in their mouth, nothin', just hand it over and they broke it up and ate the pieces. Dog's normally been pretty hostile towards the things, but this time... just nommed it. Weird change in behavior, not complainin' but it's still odd.

... managed to sneak the cat's on 'em while they were napping, too. Least trouble these things have given about the fleastuff since the cat was too small to fight back, ha. I'm not even bleeding, whoo!

Also yeah, the lab charged me a bit under 200 usd for a ~50 buck procedure at time of service. Apparently it's easier to send a refund check months later than actually charge the price of the service the day of

which is just ~us healthcare~ but seriously how fucked does your administration have to be where that happens like seriously

"fun" part is they're the better lab service within an hour's drive of me about stuff like that *laughs in stateside despair*

[EuchreJack]

Did the Lab pay you interest on the money you overpaid?
Now, remember you're only one of thousands of patients.
There are no accidents.

[Frumple]

'Course it didn't, heh.

Flip side to that, though, I'd rather lose out on a small amount of interest than I would at the only other reasonable option in my area, which just charges the ~200, no return on the impromptu loan.

Still probably a ripoff, but hey, that's capitalist healthcare for yeh :V

E: Though even with some idle thinking, administrative incompetence of some sort really does sound more likely? The period and amount is fairly likely to be insufficient to offset the administrative costs of doing something like that. Maybe it's scalping higher value patients, though, I'unno.

[Maximum Spin]

Yeah, it was probably just a mistake... at that timescale, the money probably never even saw an interest-bearing account, and the kind of return the hospital could plausibly have gotten is trivial even if they're overcharging every single patient exactly the same way.

I'm more curious about how it could have happened in the first place, but I'm sure you'll never get any answers out of anyone. Given the copay thing, I wonder if they accidentally charged you what they'd charge an insurance company, or something like that.

[Frumple]

Nah, I've done the same or similar procedures at the same place for... basically that cost (again, it's still cheaper than the only other option that's not an hour+ drive away, and not by an insignificant amount). They charged me around the usual self-pay rate for bloodwork around here, far as I've noticed, with roughly the usual discount for self-pay plus pay on service included. There's a lot variance based on exactly what you're getting done, but a 150-200 USD pricetag if you pay in full same day is... fairly normal. That it was actually just ~60-ish was the odd thing on that front, heh.

S'just for whatever reason (likely something in their policy changed vis a vis self-pay and there's a price change involved somewhere, which happens like every few months in either direction because consistency in pricing is apparently a bloody sin in US healthcare), this time, refund!

Anyway, far as I could tell from the person I talked to, the copay thing was mostly just their standard accounting whatever. Less to do with copay per se, and more to do with most of their customers aren't self-pay so they don't bother with a special message for when they're dealing with folks that are.

Which is, like. I can understand that kind of laziness/cost saving measure, really. If you ain't got to have extra bits you ain't got to have extra bits *shrugs*