So here's the scoop: I went to the overnight ER on the 26th of last month with a peritonsillar abscess. I was there for 8hrs not admitted but rather in the ER awaiting treatment. I was given antibiotics, steroids and painkillers, then around 7am ENT doctor came down and drained the abscess :/ Long story short, this is an outpatient procedure that does not require any sort of additional time in the hospital if treated immediately, which mine was.
Here's where things get hairy: sometime in the following half hour, as I was collecting my things, a nurse came over to inform me that I had been admitted for observation. This came as news to me since nobody gave me the option of refusal, and shortly thereafter another nurse came over to do an inventory form for my personal belongings. I immediately asked why I had been admitted, and was given a surprised look by a nurse who literally said, "Nobody told you they'd admitted you? That's strange." At this point I immediately told them that I did not want to be admitted and that I could not/did not want to stay in the hospital, at which point I was discharged and sent along my merry way.
Flash forward to today, when I open my mailbox to discover that my health insurance has completely denied my claim because admittance was deemed 'medically unnecessary', which for the record it definitely was. The problem here is that, while I was likely admitted on paper, I definitely did not stay in the hospital more than 15 minutes between being admitted and being discharged, and I told multiple nurses at least once that I did not want to be admitted in the first place.
So the question is, how do I fight this? Is this a common thing? Any help here would be amazing.
Submitted December 05, 2017 at 07:32PM by smwhalen2 http://ift.tt/2kquTkU
