Atlantic Mobile Imaging
October 23rd, 2012 @ 8:34 am

On August 14 of this year — two days after mom died — Atlantic Mobile Imaging of Daytona Beach, FL mailed a bill to my little sister in Seattle. The invoice was for $159.22 to pay for an x-ray of mom’s pelvis on May 10th, 2012. (In mid-April while she was at Halifax Hospital, we […]

Bank of America
October 16th, 2012 @ 1:23 pm

Last year my sister and I did our best to help mom manage her finances, and one of the things we did was create a joint checking account that I shared with her. Her Social Security checks would get deposited there, and then I would pay her bills electronically. Bank of America was debiting the […]

Autopsy Bill
October 16th, 2012 @ 8:16 am

I called Dr. Wolf on the morning of October 16th, 2012 because apparently she was concerned about the status of my bill with her for performing the autopsy on mom. I explained that I had unfortunately completely misunderstood Steve Phillips, my attorney; I had thought that his law firm was going to remit the other […]

Central Florida Podiatry
October 15th, 2012 @ 11:25 am

My sister sent me a bill addressed to mom and dated August 21st, 2012. It’s from Central Florida Podiatry for — as far as I can tell — a pedicure mom received on March 20th. She was at Grace Manor at the time. The bill is for $100.00 due to Dr. Agnes K Bartoszek. I […]

Any Update?
September 27th, 2012 @ 9:26 am

On the morning of September 27th, 2012 — a month and a half after my mom died — I sent this email to my attorney, Steve Phillips, of Pincus & Currier, LLP: Hey Steve, My sister (in Seattle) and I both received our mother’s ashes earlier this week. Both of them were poorly packaged and […]

Rxperts Pharmacy Bill
September 17th, 2012 @ 11:14 am

I sent the following email to attorney Steve Phillips of Pincus & Currier, LLP on September 17th, 2012. I attached a photocopy of the bill I received from Rxperts Pharmacy, which was postmarked September 13th, 2012.   Hey Steve, I received a bill from Rxperts Pharmacy (attached) for $1320.28. (1) It shows a line item […]

Re: Updates
September 11th, 2012 @ 10:33 am

My sister sent me an email with answers to some of my questions from yesterday: Hey, David. […] Mom needed to be eligible for Social Security Disability to be eligible for Medicaid. They are separate, but somehow one predicates the other. ChamberlinEdmonds is the company that works through Halifax to assist people in getting Medicaid […]

Updates
September 10th, 2012 @ 10:47 pm

My sister sent me an email with information about some of what she’s been handling: Hi, David. Debbie Meadows from ChamberlinEdmonds in Orlando called me […]. She said that Medicaid is waiting on Social Security who is waiting for the death certificate. I told her I knew that Social Security was waiting for the death […]

Social Security Disability
August 27th, 2012 @ 7:04 pm

My sister sent me an email regarding mom’s Social Security: The woman who has been working on Mom’s Social Security Disability claim is Jessica Srinivasan out of the Port Orange office. Mom’s last Social Security Retirement payment is the one we received in August 2012 because it pays a month behind (the August payment is […]

Re: CHECKS
August 9th, 2012 @ 11:33 am

Just a few days before mom died, my sister and I had this email exchange:   From: Gagne, David To: Gagne, Jennifer Subject: Re: CHECKS Sent: August 9, 2012 8:03 AM PT Jenny, If I remember correctly, her Social Security checks are $1104.00/mo. Are you saying you sent Woodland Terrace $1104.00? Why such an odd […]