Welcome to General Chat - GAW Community Area
This General Chat area started off as a place for people to talk about things that are off topic, however it has quickly evolved into a community and has become an integral part of the GAW experience for many of us.
Based on its evolving needs and plenty of user feedback, we are trying to bring some order and institute some rules. Please make sure you read these rules and participate in the spirit of this community.
Rules for General Chat
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Be respectful to each other. This is of utmost importance, and comments may be removed if deemed not respectful.
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Avoid long drawn out arguments. This should be a place to relax, not to waste your time needlessly.
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Personal anecdotes, puzzles, cute pics/clips - everything welcome
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Please do not spam at the top level. If you have a lot to post each day, try and post them all together in one top level comment
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Try keep things light. If you are bringing in deep stuff, try not to go overboard.
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Things that are clearly on-topic for this board should be posted as a separate post and not here (except if you are new and still getting the feel of this place)
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If you find people violating these rules, deport them rather than start a argument here.
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Feel free to give feedback as these rules are expected to keep evolving
In short, imagine this thread to be a local community hall where we all gather and chat daily. Please be respectful to others in the same way
Rules For the rest of the Site also accessible on the sidebar.
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Can anyone tell me what’s going on with annual exams at your doctors offices? They are double billing and charging you for an annual exam and an office visit at the same time for one appointment. They’re doubling their reimbursement rates for the exact same visit. I know this is legal, but I don’t understand how this is ethical. I didn’t even bring up any new medical conditions. How are they getting away with this?
Not sure. But agree they are pushing these exams HARD. Probably to offset their losses from more and more people refusing vaxxxes.
I took my son in for a sports physical recently, which is required by schools so he can play a sport. The pediatric office was pushing the "annual checkup" hard. I said no, we just want the sports physical, and they kept guilt-tripping me into the annual exam. I'm guessing this is solid $ for them and reinforces the "subscription-based" service for them to get $ out of us yearly, even when there's nothing wrong with us.