Gifts from Humana
This came from a reader:
A patient of mine had a fall and was in the hospital for one day! After she was home she received a card from Humana telling her that she was entitled to some gifts. She said OK. In a short time she received a very large box at home. In the box was bread, milk, various juices, and 10 frozen meals (in dry ice). This was her gift for choosing Humana. Now I don’t know about you, but I am nickled and dimed by these groups daily and I consider this a huge waste of our health care monies. They are all making a fortune in health care and I continue to work harder for less money. She is well off, has a good support group and did NOT need this box of goodies…
How do you like this scenario? Makes it harder to work FOR the managed care companies, doesn’t it? Think about this next time they want to negotiate your fees.
As my children say, WTF?
Kinda reminds me of the time one Thanksgiving in medical school when the doorbell rang, and it was a local group binging us the ingredients for a Thanksgiving dinner because we were poor.
My wife was mortified.
True, according to the records, we had no income, as I was in medical school and living on loans, but we already had a nice dinner cooking, and they wouldn’t take no for an answer.
So, I thanked them, packed it all up, took our young son, and brought it all to the local soup kitchen, where they were glad to receive it.
One of those weird life experiences.