Our health insurance provider (United Healthcare), like many others, offers the "convenience" of a physician search who applies to your policy. However my experience this afternoon has become relatively typical when trying to simply make *just an appointment* to see someone. Here's what happened with my calls to doctors' offices:
- "This number has been disconnected."
- Appointments weren't available till June. That doesn't help this painful second head that's growing out of my face NOW.
- Busy signal. Why are doctors offices the only places left on earth that don't have a second line?
- "This number has been disconnected."
- "This number has been disconnected."
- Wrong number
- 4:30 p.m. is after hours which is convenient since most of us work past that.
- I was transferred 3 times until I finally reached the appointment setters. I didn't, however, have a medical record #. I had to call another place to just be assigned a medical record number and then call them back--and I didn't have their number since I was transferred 3 times.
- "This number has been disconnected."
- After hours.
I gave up after call #10. Hopefully I don't have skin cancer. If I do it was nice knowing you all. I would have liked to have hung around a little bit longer. 
That sucks! My health insurance (Cigna) is so-so, like any other. Howevs, when I had to get in to see a dermatologist *pronto* pre-wedding about the second heart beat emanating from my chin, I was shocked to hear that I could get in the same day at the 1st place I called.
ReplyDeleteI've probably now used up the freak chance of that ever happening again.