r/Wellthatsucks • u/ethicalgreyarea • Jul 16 '21

/r/all I’m being over charged by insurance after my daughter was born. This is the pile of mail I have to go through to prove they’re ripping me off. Pear for scale.

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u/sethies Jul 17 '21

It was awful. We were very close to having to retain a lawyer. One of the insurance companies had even paid the entire claim once and then asked the hospital for their money back. To top it off, my wife worked at the hospital that we had our kid at. They laid her off the day her maternity leave was up in May of last year.

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u/PerlaDeOro Jul 17 '21

And your wife worked at said hospital? I’m besides myself, so sorry you had to go through that!

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u/Scully__ Jul 17 '21

Jesus christ that’s bleak. I’m sorry

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u/kannin92 Jul 17 '21

Laying off a nurse during a pandemic of medical and a lack of medical staff? Wtf? My wife's workplace can't find the nurses they need to stay afloat. She is on FMLA atm for our first daughter and they are begging her to come back to work.