Anyone's insurance card ever get stolen?

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Anyone's insurance card ever get stolen?

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited November 2007

    Frown

    I don't know where the heck it is, or how it has been picked up by the wrong hands, but I got a bill yesterday from some place for some date of service that I did not actually have!!!!   I just tore the house apart and can not find it.  I'm really worried-anyone else ever have this happen?  I tried to call insurance this morning but of course it is Saturday, so noone is there, or at the Medical Center that sent me the bill. 
    help! 
    Deb

  • Larry44
    Larry44 Member Posts: 53
    edited November 2007

    My mother's Medicare was billed for at least two procedures which she did not have done.   She never lost her id card.   So, it could be sloppy accounting on the part of a doctor's office or hospital.   My mother was in a life care community so we turned to bill over to the claim processor for the community and we never heard anything more about the claims so I don't know how they were resolved.

  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited November 2007

    Deb:  Unfortunately I have heard of this happen in the past.  Frustrating that its the weekk-end, but come Monday notify the insurance company and get a new card issued.  Get them to cancel the old card.  I dont know much about the legality of it all, but I dont think you will be held responsible.

    What an awful thing to have to deal with.

    Nicki

  • ADK
    ADK Member Posts: 2,259
    edited November 2007

    Deb,

    I don't want to scare you, but if it isn't just sloppy accounting, this could be very serious.  It's a new scam.  I saw a story on the news about a woman who was arrested because she was accused of abandoning her baby at the hospital after she had it.  Turned out, another woman had stolen her medical ID.  They threatened to take away her two children.  This happened last summer and she is still fighting the hospital on payment for the birth even though she proved to the police and social services that it wasn't her baby through DNA tests.  Get in touch with your insurance company first thing tomorrow. 

  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited November 2007

    ACK!   That does freak me out!   

  • ADK
    ADK Member Posts: 2,259
    edited November 2007

    Deb,

    What's happened?  Is everything okay with your insurance and it was just an accounting hiccup?

  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited November 2007

    Ok, here is the story.......EmbarassedUndecidedYell

    As for the insurance card-I have NO idea how this happened, but I was writing thank you cards to people for various things (I am sort of an addict/OCD person when it comes to that sort of thing), and I had the address book out.  When I had picked up the book, a piece of paper fluttered out to the floor.  After I was done writing the address, I, out of nothing but sheer curiousity, picked up the piece of paper, looked at the name and address scrawled on it, and thought, "hmm, it's odd I haven't transferred that to a permanent spot in the book-I should do that now while I am thinking about it." 

    So, I flip to the "S" section, and RIGHT THERE, sitting happily, is my INSURANCE CARD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!   My STUPID INSURANCE CARD?!?!?  

    How the heck did it get there, I ask?!?!?  No idea.  I may be a purse slob (I always call my purse a "mom purse," because that is where I put my entire life), but I am dilligent about putting my insurance card in it's designated spot. 


    We can chalk up that dilligence to breast cancer, by the way......

    So, I call the questionable number for the bill I received, and it was totally a bizarre mistake.  I DO owe them $16 for my port flush, but they just picked a randomized date of service to put on the bill.  It, by the way, IS a main branch to the hospital I went to for the port flush.  I thought my dh was looney when he suggested that.  Foot in mouth

    All I can say is, "Thank the LORD that I do not have to go through another identity theft." 

    My account on ebay was hacked into two years ago, and within minutes, they bid on 75,000.00 worth of stuff by using my name.  What a nightmare. 

    Thanks, ladies for the support! 
    Love and prayers, Deb

  • ADK
    ADK Member Posts: 2,259
    edited November 2007

    I am so glad everything is okay.  That is  awful about what happened to you on e-bay.  Another reason to shop in person.

    Thanks for the update.Smile

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