Additional Records Requests
May 9th, 2013 @ 10:51 am

Yesterday I told Jennifer at Mathis & Murphy that I would send her copies of some questions I had asked Jill. I sent her this email this morning:   Dear Jennifer, During our phone call yesterday I mentioned that I had previously asked Jill about obtaining my mother’s medical records from Fish Memorial Hospital, Halifax […]

Re: Documents
February 26th, 2013 @ 9:46 am

  From: David V. Gagne To: Jill Bechtold @ Mathis & Murphy, P.A. Subject: Re: Documents Sent: February 26, 2013 @ 09:46 AM PDT Dear Jill, I wanted to let you know that I created an account for you on the website I administer for my mother, http://kathiegagne.com/ The site is private because my previous […]

Halifax Pathology Associates, PA
November 9th, 2012 @ 8:29 am

Mom had an outstanding balance of $1,375.02 with Halifax Pathology Associates, PA, the company that handles — as far as I can tell — the billing for blood analysis (and nothing else) done at Halifax Hospital. That total covers six tests done on January 20th, five tests done on January 21st, three tests done on […]

Reviewing Their Position
November 2nd, 2012 @ 1:01 pm

Early in the afternoon of Friday, November 2nd, 2012, attorney Steve Phillips replied to my email from that morning. He embedded his responses inline and in bold:   Sent: November 2, 2012 @ 1:01 PM PSTSubject: Re: Status Update? David,See Below.Thanks,Steve (1) Can you tell me the date that Woodland Terrace was first made aware […]

Emailing Steve
November 2nd, 2012 @ 10:49 am

On the morning of Friday, November 2nd, 2012, I sent the following email to attorney Steve Phillips of Pincus & Currier, LLP:   Sent: November 2, 2012 @ 10:49 AM PSTSubject: Re: Status Update? Hey Steve, (1) Can you tell me the date that Woodland Terrace was first made aware of our request for my […]

Radiology Associates
November 1st, 2012 @ 9:49 am

I found a bill for mom from a place called Radiology Associates. The statement shows it was for something labeled MRI BRAIN WO/W CONTRAST administered at HMC (which I correctly assumed to be Halifax Medical Center) on January 20th, 2012. The amount due is $275.00 and it was supposed to have been paid by 02/25/2012. […]

BCA Financial Services, Inc.
October 24th, 2012 @ 10:23 am

This morning I called BCA Financial Services, Inc., a collection agency in Miami, Florida. I have three bills here all dated November 3, 2011 and addressed to mom. Each one lists the physician Brenda H. Salter, a location of HMC Port Orange ED, and a service date of July 17, 2011. I’ve never heard or […]

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 […]

Social Security Disability
October 16th, 2012 @ 8:23 am

I called Shay Murphy from the Florida Department of Health again this morning. Unlike yesterday I actually managed to get her on the phone, and she seemed to be a very sweet and caring person. We spoke for twenty-four minutes, and she explained to me how she had been unable to convince anyone at Halifax […]

Florida Department of Health
October 15th, 2012 @ 9:11 am

This morning when I got to work I called Shay Murphy, Medical Disability Adjudicator with the Florida Department of Health. 1 I called the (800) 821-8122 number on the bottom of the letter my sister was mailed on September 20th. 2 The letter, addressed to my mother — who died on August 12, 2012 — […]