Raymond Lewallen

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Hoping the insurance company programmers are REALLY good at what they do

Yeah, so, today we got the hospital bill for my son’s stay in the hospital. Needless to say, I hope the insurance company developers didn’t ship the client applications with any bugs, cause I can’t afford the bill.

For the hospital stay, just the stay: $800,591.45

This does not include his surgeries, xrays, the birth, heart ultrasounds, head ultrasounds etc. That’s just for staying in the NICU for 40 days. Tack on another $50 – 75,000 for those.

I have good insurance though. I’m supposedly supposed to have max out-of-pocket yearly family expense of $2000.00. So, we’ll see what happens.

Here’s hoping that the insurance company software developers are better at their jobs than I am at mine, cause I can’t afford their mistakes. Insurance companies can be some severe bastards sometimes though, so I’m expecting a drawn out, knock down fight over a lot of this.

Published Apr 26 2006, 02:47 PM by Raymond Lewallen

Comments

Erik Porter said:

Holy hell man! :( Good luck...hope your max is right...

# April 26, 2006 3:57 PM

Michelle said:

Alright Insurance Companies....Pay up bitches. You make enough money.

# April 26, 2006 4:50 PM

Jordan said:

Holy god, that's expensive. Being from Canada, we usually don't see the bills/deal with insurance.

Here's hoping it goes smoothly for you.

# April 26, 2006 5:11 PM

Stephanie said:

Well said Michelle.

# April 26, 2006 5:12 PM

Anonymous said:

Be scared! I am consulting at one and I am thinking about changing insurance companies.

# April 26, 2006 5:17 PM

Paul Wilson said:

I can assure you from experience that the insurance companies' systems are full of bugs. I even notice a pretty big one that could have been in my favor for all they knew -- it wasn't, but the point was that they didn't have the docs to know that, so they should have been asking for money back! Of course it usually goes the other way, and its full of those too.

# April 26, 2006 8:27 PM

Chris Wallace said:

Do you have a copay? Deduct that from the bill. Insurance will pay maybe 20% and that's probably really way up on the high side. The rest gets written off as a contractual obligation between the hospital and the insurance company.

# April 27, 2006 6:58 AM

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About Raymond Lewallen

Working primarily in the public sector during his career, Raymond has designed and built several high profile enterprise level applications for all levels of the government. Raymond now works as a solutions architect for EMC. Raymond is an agile coach, Microsoft MVP C# and also president of the Oklahoma City Developers Group and Oklahoma Agile Developers Group. Raymond spends a lot of his time learning and teaching such things as Test Driven Development, Domain Driven Design, Design Patterns and Extreme Programming practices and principles, to name a few. Raymond is also an advocate of Alt.Net. Raymond is primarily a framework guy, so don't ask him anything about UI :)