I may have cried a little watching the tribute to Tina Turner at the Grammys. Woo.
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I keep getting cheques in the mail from Medicare addressed to doctors who charged an out of pocket fee. The letter is addressed to me, the cheque isnt if that makes sense. This has only just started, but makes 0 sense that Im getting cheques addressed to the doctor right? Like, it aint my job to deliver shit to the doctor after they charged an out of pocket.
Is this some weird new thing Medicare are doing? I keep throwing them in the bin because its not addressed to me.
Not a scam, actually a relic from the origins of Medicare - Pay Doctor Via Claimant (PDVC). See Medicare asking one million patients to hand-deliver cheques to pay doctors - 2017 article.
Ridiculous that it still exists. If you bin it the specialist/Dr just has to wait 90 days to get directly paid by Medicare
then thats what they have to do. Cozzi livs. I charge a fee for delivery, aint doing that shit for free with diesel prices being what they are.
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I'm reading a book on western/latin alphabet calligraphy and it has a page on Carolingian. I've been there, where the monk Alquin of York made this!! I've been to Charlemagne's Scriptorium in Aix le Chapelle.
Imma practice this one , it's kind of exciting to have that personal connection with history, even if it's just being there in the rooms 1200 years later to see where it happened.
Joining the caught-something club, I think Iβm at the tail end of it. Went to an incredibly crowded place on Saturday. No fever but rather fatigued since Saturday evening. If itβs COVID itβs not showing up on the test. Maybe thatβs what happens when I am freshly vaccinated.
Watching the Malcom Turnbul doco on ABC and itβs a real bitchfest. Barnaby Joyce called Malcom a shithead, and Malcolm has called Dutton a thug.
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I'll make tomorrow's thread because I'm awake.
This conference has gone downstairs, we used to get fed!
the only point of any conference is the food
This one is actually bloody good on the learning things and being interesting front. Not all schmoozing nonsense. Donβt mind a free rice paper roll though.
well fuck me, looks like SE water actually got out there and fixed that leak
How long did it take after you sent the Snap solve thing in?
Don't think that fixed it, unless the council cracked the shits at them (the owners had already alerted SE Water), but it was still pissing on saturday so its a recent development