I hate dealing with transmitting medical Insurance claims, but that’s what I did today. It all started about five years ago when I got a call from a lady at a local Doctor’s office that told me her modem wasn’t working. I thought, Gee, no big deal, that will be easy to fix. I went out and found out that she referred to her computer as her modem and when she said not working she meant she didn’t know how to use it. I’ve now learned to ask people, “What do you mean so & so is not working, or how do you know it isn’t working?”
Back to the story, after some questions I found out what she really needed was to get setup with Medicare to do electronic claim submissions. So, after about a week of me studying the software, and talking to Medicare, and learning about billing codes, and inputting a zillion codes, we were set and uploading claims.
Fast forward about five years and it stopped working. Claims were only being sent partially and sometimes not at all. We found that the Medicare Claims Express Software, or MCE, had corrupted data. The symptoms were when we went to “Workday Wrap up” the blue bar did not go to the top of the screen, but it did create the file to send. We could transmit the file just fine through Hyper Terminal, but Medicard did not receive it correctly.
As luck may have it, our the backup started failing last September and no one ever checked it. We were able to take all the files from the backup that started with ptnt* and overwrite the current corrupted files and then all started working fine again. Who would have thought a failed backup would save us?
Words, Pictures, Videos. That’s what you’ve got to make a post on a blog. In person, you’ve got the scent of the air, the landscape, the sky, the people. The idea is to take the Elements you have and Link them together to tell a Story in context. That’s all.
Today’s Fat Tuesday, so I’m thinking about one of our top Search Terms. It started with Misty’s post Brazilian Girls Attack YouTube with Spam. Since then we’ve seen on HitTail the many visits for youtubegirls, brazilian girls takes it in, hot brazilian girl, & hot brazilian girls.
In the Google AnalyticsGeo Overlay Map above we see that there aren’t many visits from Brazil, so it must be people from other countries visiting us because they can’t make it to Carnival!
This Reuters article says India is the new China at world’s biggest wireless fair. But this Read/WriteWeb article exclaims “QQ – China IM Service Goes Web 2.0, With Half a Billion Registered Users!” Will the Opportunity in China Meltdown waiting for the Government to Act?
I’m always looking for ways to use tools in ways other than for what they were intended. The great thing about our current era is that the tools are not only easier to use…, they are also more flexible than ever, allowing for some creative uses that seem to re-invent the tools all over again.
No, I didn’t get this photo from the Church Sign Generator. We spotted it coming home from a Surprise Doggy Playdate for Buster and Taffy at my Mom’s house. The plan was to show her how well the dogs got along so she would be willing to take care of Buster when we travel to California. It was going well until Buster thought to mark his territory on the entertainment center. Taffy, a miniature poodle, was very excited about it all, but as Rita Rudner joked, “I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult.”
Tattoos aren’t just for ‘freaky’ people any more. We’re seeing a lot of that, more conservative people. It’s not so much what everybody tends to think of as the freaky, biker, whatever … We get all kinds of people in here.
Everyone’s got a Story, but some are stuck in the Drama.
