Mystery Health Insurance Almost Destroyed Me

Written by Dave Piontkowski / Illustration by Marissa Maciel

In 2020, I lost my job due to the pandemic and was also put on a kidney transplant list. The combination led me to cancel my primary insurance and start on Medicare. The only problem? All of my claims were getting denied due to a mystery “secondary insurance plan” that the company insisted I had.

Despite me explaining that I only had Medicare, the computer disagreed, and no one knew how to fix the problem. Eventually, my savior — a health insurance rep — spent over an hour with me on the phone and sorted this out, realizing it was a glitch in their system.

I cried tears of joy as we sorted through every bill from the last 18 months, finally fixing this costly mistake.

This was written by Dave Piontkowski (@davepcomedy) and illustrated by Marissa Maciel (@marissaleicam)