it was seemingly resolved but I did get a $1600 bill years after getting some bloodwork done due to one of the myriad tests “not being pre authorized” After a millions backs and fourths between the billing department at the hospital and my insurance it was determined that what had happened was the 3rd party company that “authorizes” blood work (after a doctor orders it and insurance reviews it and the patient gets the blood stolen) had changed names and somehow the idiots in the billing department at the hospital that deals with this company on a daily basis somehow didn’t know this. Why was I the one who had to figure this out and not the people paid to do that? Only Brian Thompson knows.

Related, my insurance changed its name this July, let everyone know repeatedly for months, but that didnt stop some clerical agent at my drs. office to message me and say they don’t take my insurance and are beginning the offboarding process until I told them its literally the same company. Their response was basically the Ah, Eto… BLEGH meme.

I feel like these companies will change their names constantly just as another attempt to not pay out what they are supposed to.