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Two years ago our supplemental insurance through my work or the next people in line or the insurance company themselves, failed to get there records correct and we went all year with highest deductible insurance they had but paid for the lowest deductible. We fought it all year long, luckily we didn't need to use it.
Morning all. April already and it's a wet start here in Dallas. Got paid today so that is a good thing. I will have to continue to look into it however as I believe it's a month short. Not a surprise...
Originally Posted by Tim Young
Good morning Oregon,
@River Wild Rich, How did your son in law do at the reining thing? Any hit's on the jeep yet?
Hi Tim. Gabe took first place at the qualifier so he's in. In a couple of hours will be the scramble to get tickets to the event. We have several people that will try. Wife and I have 3 devices each in hopes to get some tickets. Crazy.... We will be there regardless if we have tickets or not but we have friends and other family that want to go so we need a few.
No hits on the heep. It's at a local (salem) dealership on consignment. They deal in specialty cars and trucks so hoping they can move it soon. I just don' t thick the hybrid sells well here in the PNW. We'll see I guess.
Right On Rich, Are any of the reining shows streamed? It would be fun to check it out. What is your son in laws name? I'll try and find a youtube of him and his horse.
Good afternoon Oregon and everyone everywhere else. Wet, rain and overcast again today. Breaks in the rain but then starts again. We've come up 5° to 42 now. Running around multi-tasking this morning about like an unorganized chicken with its head cut off. Dealing with Log House Contractors and Deck Contractors. Seems like I've been on the phone and talking with money people all morning long. And I'm not done yet.
Was down in the Rec Blg. installing a couple of security camera's yesterday and a sage rat emerged from his new hole just in front of the deck steps towards the river. Perfect spot for a person to step off the steps, into a hole and break an ankle. After a little hide n seek, he got hit with a .45 ACP 185 grain hydrashock. Overkill the 100th degree, but other than some .308 Hornady SST's that's all I had at the Rec blg. Took the shovel and put what few pieces I could find back down the hole and filled it in.
I'm sure there are more of them down in the hole, there usually is, but as of this morning the hole is still covered and no new ones have opened up. It's a tad early for the sage rats here, so it's probably the mild winter that sent one out early. And, I now have some .22 LR and .22 mag rounds down at the rec blg.
Originally Posted by Tim Young
Geeze Jim, If it were not for bad luck.
Two years ago our supplemental insurance through my work or the next people in line or the insurance company themselves, failed to get there records correct and we went all year with highest deductible insurance they had but paid for the lowest deductible. We fought it all year long, luckily we didn't need to use it.
We have a retirement/financial/insurance councilor that keeps the insurance for the Warden and I in line. She has been an absolutely outstanding Gem of a find. My biggest fear currently is that she is going to retire on us. She's closed her office up, but has converted a bedroom in their farm house into an office space. So, for now, we're good. If she does fully retire, we'll cross that bridge then I guess. She now has me in a "Patriot Plan" Medicare Advantage. As long as I use the Vet System for Health Care, my Medicare withholding from the SS checks is about 70% less than the normal $203 (?) this year.
The McMinnville Hospital has been absolutely notorious in their billing practices - at least for us. And I've heard a lot of complaints from other people. We only use them for tests like lab draws and Radiology anymore. There have been a litany of problems. We absolutely refuse to use them for 'in patient' care.
We have quite a few problems with them not billing insurance or incorrect billing and continuous problems with them failing to provide chart notes or documentation to the insurance when the insurance requests it. This last visit, the billing to Medicare was made by the hospital, but not by the radiology interpretation people. The Supplemental Insurance hasn't heard a thing from either of them. The Warden has had the same AARP UHC Supplemental Insurance now for at least 5 years. The insurance has been really good. After the annual Medicare deductible, we've had no out of pocket expenses for the Warden.
We're starting the process of getting the Warden's medical all transferred over to St. Charles out of Bend. St. Charles has a Medical Center in La Pine that has PCP's as well as Cardiologists and Pulmonologist. To steal a phrase, One stop Shopping.
Currently we have to go to McMinnville for Heart Doctor (retired), Newberg for Pulmonologist and Salem for another Specialist. Seems like a good time to make a change and get her switched into a more solid/stable medical treatment world. Her PCP has closed up shop and moved to Roseburg, her heart Doctor has retired and we fired her pulmonologist after misdiagnosis that ended up putting her in OHSU hospital in Portland for a month, ICU for 8 of those days. We replaced him with a Doctor from Providence out of Newberg, but all of her appointments with her have been video telemed, no hands on in person, and going to the hospital for one test or another.
Originally Posted by River Wild
Morning all. April already and it's a wet start here in Dallas. Got paid today so that is a good thing. I will have to continue to look into it however as I believe it's a month short. Not a surprise...
No hits on the heep. It's at a local (salem) dealership on consignment. They deal in specialty cars and trucks so hoping they can move it soon. I just don' t thick the hybrid sells well here in the PNW. We'll see I guess.
I've noticed that when the weather is good, the Tesla recharge station down at the Diamlond Lake Jct., (97/138) seems to get some use now. We would go by there and often wonder why anyone would waste (tax) money putting them in. We never saw them used. Now, it looks like the little cafe has reopened and the charging station has a number of cars plugged in. They're a long ways from the nearest city or current bush, but I still think that people using those stations have not planned out their trips very well. But it is around 130 miles from Roseburg and Medford and probably 90 miles from Bend, with 65/70 miles to go to get to K Falls.
Right On Rich, Are any of the reining shows streamed? It would be fun to check it out. What is your son in laws name? I'll try and find a youtube of him and his horse.
Yes, we watch a lot of the shows online. Most are free. I think the TRFAM you have to pay for. You can search his name on youtube, and the other social media if you have those. Link to his website is below.
What a charlie foxtrot to get tickets but we managed some. Out of 5 people trying only one was able to get the limit of 6 and wife got 1. We needed 8 min but we'll figure it out. VRBO is already reserved for the week.
WELCOME TO APRIL! MOTHER NATURE STARTED AN APRIL FOOLS JOKE YESTERDAY AFTERNOON!
Good morning Oregon and everyone everywhere else. 27 and still snowing. Sun shining right now, but wind is blowing in snow from somewhere. Wind is ringing the wind chimes and the squirrel feeder on the tree, just filled yesterday, apparently is too exposed to keep the squirrels happy this morning. They are sharing the bird feeder with the birds.
We have to head to Sheridan this afternoon. Warden has an appt. at the cardiologist tomorrow morning. We were going to spend the week, but with the contractors getting on board, we are going to have to come back here right after her appt. Then we'll have to go back next Monday for my VA visit.
Wind blowing the snow in under the porch roof to the front door.
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Good evening Oregon and everyone everywhere else. Made it to Alpha about an hour ago. A number of rain squalls along the way. Traffic not too bad. Some idiot passing a couple of semi’s tried taking us out had on near Hardesty Trail Head. Thankfully the shoulder was wide enough and solid enough to hold us.
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