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Learning to Stepparent's picture

I need help figuring out medical bills.

So SD has ongoing speech and occupational therapy at our local hospital for her special needs. I need a little guidance about how to properly fill out the paperwork for BM to reimburse us for her portion.

I assume it is like this in all counties so someone should know. I know we have to meet the ordinary medical expense (or whatever it is called) amount before we start billing BM. My question is, now that we are in a new year, is which bills count for which year? Is it based on service date or statement date? I mean we are still getting bills that show a service date of 1/23/2015 (even though they really aren't). We just got a bill with a service date of 10/01/15 but a statement date of Jan 2016. So does that count for last year or for this year? Anybody know?

TIA

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WalkOnBy's picture

Good question-typically its calendar year. Your husband can call the medical support specialist assigned to his judge and ask.

Learning to Stepparent's picture

Well yes, he COULD do that but given that the woman is too damn stupid to read a hospital bill something tells me she won't be able to answer the question.

WalkOnBy's picture

LOL - which, the FOC worker or BM??

Here's what I have done (when my kids were minors) and still do when it comes to Medusa. There's 3 skids, so our total Ordinary Medical expense is $1071 ($357 x 3). I keep a running total in a spreadsheet. The second we hit $1072, I make a copy of that receipt, print out a copy of the spreadsheet, fill out the request form and send it to Medusa. I mark the date on the calendar and then wait the required number of days. The day after THAT, I send it to FOC with their paperwork to request enforcement.

The exception is braces, which is NOT extraordinary medical and, therefore, not subject to the threshold amount. For braces, I took the estimate from the Orthodontist, the EOB from my insurance company, and any payment structure laid out by my insurance company (each insurer handles it a little bit differently, some pay out one lump to the ortho, some, like mine, pay out to the ortho each month, blah blah blah) and send that information to Medusa. Of course, she doesn't respond, so 28 days later, I send it to FOC for enforcement.

Pain in the ass? You betcha......but, that's the system we have.

With Asshat, we would total up at the end of the year and he would write me a check. The ONE time I had to have FOC go after him for enforcement, I had a year's worth of bills, and they didn't give any shit about it, so I am guessing you would be okay if you submitted bills from 2015.

I will try to find the statutory language and pm it to you.

Learning to Stepparent's picture

Just found out DH got a new FOC caseworker. Hopefully this is not one of those "the devil you know..." type situations.