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...but my eye doctor billed me to have an eyelash pulled out. At my last visit in June, the resident doctor examined my eyes and become overly concerned about one, single misdirected eyelash. She insisted that it was rubbing across the surface of my cornea and needed to be immediately removed. I could not believe that she focused so much on this single lash and did not even ask me about my dry eye symptoms and whether they have improved. I finally told her to just remove it, and she went to retrieve a pair of tweezers and put a numbing drop because it was "going to be extremely painful." I told her that she did not need to use a numbing drop because I have experienced far worse eye pain (constant burning, not being able to keep my eyes open etc) than having a single eyelash pulled out with tweezers. She didn't even listen to me and told me to put my head back so that she could put the drops in.
Anyway, I thought it was the end of the story once the eyelash was removed, but I noticed today that there is a $200 charge for "surgery" on my medical bill. I don't have to pay that charge because I have satisfied my deductible, but it makes me so angry that something as trivial as pulling one eyelash out was billed. I understand that there is a need to bill for this service if multiple eyelashes are being removed, but I could have pulled out this single eyelash with my own tweezers and saved my health insurance company $200.
Sorry for all this. I was just frustrated that the focus was on the eyelash instead of the more pressing medical condition of dry eyes. I could not believe that the clinic charged $200 to do what I could have done on my own. I guess I will never understand.
Have a good fourth!
Anyway, I thought it was the end of the story once the eyelash was removed, but I noticed today that there is a $200 charge for "surgery" on my medical bill. I don't have to pay that charge because I have satisfied my deductible, but it makes me so angry that something as trivial as pulling one eyelash out was billed. I understand that there is a need to bill for this service if multiple eyelashes are being removed, but I could have pulled out this single eyelash with my own tweezers and saved my health insurance company $200.
Sorry for all this. I was just frustrated that the focus was on the eyelash instead of the more pressing medical condition of dry eyes. I could not believe that the clinic charged $200 to do what I could have done on my own. I guess I will never understand.
Have a good fourth!
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