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<blockquote data-quote="donna723" data-source="post: 519995" data-attributes="member: 1883"><p>Signorina, we had something like that when I first started working for the State about 25 years ago. Back then you paid for your own doctor visits and prescriptions and then sent in a claim to the insurance company and they would reimburse you 80% of what you paid. At the institution where I worked, we were told in no uncertain terms, that we had to submit all our medical bills and receipts to the HR (Personnel back then) office and they would submit them to the insurance company. There was only one slightly scatterbrained clerk who processed these claims and sometimes she'd be weeks behind so people had to wait for their reimbursements. It had been done that way there for so long that no one really questioned it. Of course that meant that they knew everyone's medical problems, every doctors visit, every prescription they were on. It all changed when the Personnel officer retired and a new one took over! Come to find out, we were the <u>ONLY</u> institution doing it that way! Apparently she had decided that the average employee wasn't intelligent enough to submit their own insurance claims to the company so she had them all come through her office, even if it slowed down receiving the badly needed reimbursements! I think she did it partly out of nosiness too ... she knew EVERYTHING about everybody! When the new Personnel officer got there she couldn't believe that they had been doing that and quickly put a stop to it! Besides the fact that submitting all those claims was practically a full time job for the clerk, she said it was none of their d*mn business what everyone's medical problems were or what medications they were on!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="donna723, post: 519995, member: 1883"] Signorina, we had something like that when I first started working for the State about 25 years ago. Back then you paid for your own doctor visits and prescriptions and then sent in a claim to the insurance company and they would reimburse you 80% of what you paid. At the institution where I worked, we were told in no uncertain terms, that we had to submit all our medical bills and receipts to the HR (Personnel back then) office and they would submit them to the insurance company. There was only one slightly scatterbrained clerk who processed these claims and sometimes she'd be weeks behind so people had to wait for their reimbursements. It had been done that way there for so long that no one really questioned it. Of course that meant that they knew everyone's medical problems, every doctors visit, every prescription they were on. It all changed when the Personnel officer retired and a new one took over! Come to find out, we were the [U]ONLY[/U] institution doing it that way! Apparently she had decided that the average employee wasn't intelligent enough to submit their own insurance claims to the company so she had them all come through her office, even if it slowed down receiving the badly needed reimbursements! I think she did it partly out of nosiness too ... she knew EVERYTHING about everybody! When the new Personnel officer got there she couldn't believe that they had been doing that and quickly put a stop to it! Besides the fact that submitting all those claims was practically a full time job for the clerk, she said it was none of their d*mn business what everyone's medical problems were or what medications they were on! [/QUOTE]
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