Medicaid comes through

OK, so all this treatment costs a lot. Even with a great insurance policy, we have hit the maximum out of pocket expenses for the year for Tim. That doesn’t include co-payments for clinic visits, hospital stays and meds. It all adds up quickly. We’ve been keeping a total of all the actual expenses and it is quite a lot of money. There is however a program in Idaho called Katie Beckett that seeks to cover the expenses beyond primary insurance and Tim qualifies for it with his illness and income (essentially zero). So we just received his Medicaid card. We had been told to not pay the bills and inform the payees that we’d get them a Medicaid number shortly. That doesn’t keep them from re-billing though. And we had just gotten a number of collection notices for past due accounts. The Medicaid card came though at just the right time.

--bob