I feel impelled to correct my previous “show me the money” post.<\/p>\n
I re-read a letter I received from Medicare and gave them a call to find out what was going on. Here’s what I was told: Dinkes & Schwitzer had, to my modified amazement, gotten the required information to Medicare. Later rather than sooner, but they did it.<\/p>\n
Now that all the necessary paperwork is in the hands of everyone who needs it, I should be getting my check in a couple of weeks.<\/p>\n
Or so I told William Schwitzer, in a letter I wrote him today.<\/p>\n
Since I can’t praise my lawyers, let me praise Medicare. This is a government agency that does its job, and does it well and in a timely manner. Throughout this process, they have been reporting to Dinkes & Schwitzer, in readable language \u2014 and always copying me\u00a0\u2014 what it needed from the lawyers to issue a final statement of what I was required to repay Medicare for their expenditures in caring for my broken metatarsal.<\/p>\n
And in the end, even after Medicare and I had worked out how much conditionally I owed them, the final amount is\u00a0\u2014 brace yourself for this because you will be shocked\u00a0\u2014 less than<\/strong> we had worked out. More than $100 less.<\/p>\n What is so wrong about the way Dinkes handled this part of my case is: why didn’t they keep me fully and regularly informed about what they were doing? If they indeed had planned to give Medicare what Medicare needed, why didn’t they tell me?<\/p>\n And that was the essence of my problem throughout with Dinkes: they failed to communicate to me, their client, what was going on with my case. Even when I asked, they failed to answer. Why? What do they imagine they are achieving by keeping the process secret?<\/p>\n What they achieved was a thoroughly deserved grievance against them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I feel impelled to correct my previous “show me the money” post. I re-read a letter I received from Medicare and gave them a call to find out what was going on. Here’s what I was told: Dinkes & Schwitzer … Continue reading