I am currently 2 months pregnant and just recently went for my 2nd pre-natal routine checkup. They performed a papsmear, and a ton of blood testing since I am almost 40yrs and it may be in the high risk category for pregnancy. Before I went in to see the doctor. The people at the front desk assured me that my Ambetter plan covers everything that needed to be done. But today, I received a letter in the mail from ambetter saying that I was denied for "Genetic Testing" as it falls out of their covered services. I am really stressed out about this and don't know what I should do. The people at the doctor's office told me they cover it, and ambetter is telling me otherwise. I also signed up for CHIP perinatal and wonder if that covers Genetic Testing.

Hi, Curious if anyone else has had this issue. From what I’ve read online, it seems to be a general theme with pet insurance and I don’t think I have any rights or avenues to pursue to do anything about it. I have had Embrace pet insurance to cover my 3 pets since December of 2020. My insurance premiums renewals for my pets, that I still have the records for have been: Dec. 2022: $112.90 Dec. 2023: $133.49 Dec. 2024: $245.76 My pets are obviously getting older from when I initially took the policy. Current ages: Cat (6) Cat (10) Dog (8) Their rationale for increasing my premium is cost of vet bills increasing, my “tenure” (I’ve had embrace 5 years therefore my pets have likely developed ‘pre existing conditions’ that would not be covered if I was a new policy holder which means more money they have to pay to now cover these conditions), and the pets age. I understand things increase year over year, I’m hung up on the fact that my rate has almost doubled in a single year. I was going to file a complaint with the state insurance commissioner, but it doesn’t seem that they are technically violating any laws. I feel like I can’t switch companies because my pets have “pre existing conditions” that won’t be covered at a new place but at $300/ month I might as well save my money and pay the vet bills out of pocket. I found online that Embrace was sold to JAB Holding company for $1.5 billion dollars in 2023. So I don’t think my premiums are going up so Embrace can keep the lights on. If you have any advice, I am all ears. If you don’t have advice, take this as a recommendation to avoid Embrace pet insurance at absolutely all costs.

I have a two year old mixed breed dog he has been on Fetch pet insurance since I adopted him as a puppy. I was paying about $25/month. The first year I did not make any claims so it did not increase. This past year I did have to make about $5,000 in claims which led to an IBD diagnosis. I have not made any claims since then. I just got my renewal notice and the new monthly cost is around $60/month. This doesn’t seem reasonable for the low coverage limit I have. This seems like an excessive increase. Is it worth switching pet insurance to something that has better coverage and is less than half the price but won’t cover pre-existing conditions and just saving the extra money for when it’s needed? What would you guys do?

I was in a car accident a couple weeks ago and didn’t suffer any major injuries besides a bumping my head and some headaches which have subsided. I didn’t go to the hospital or anything and was called today by progressive and was told they typically don’t give payouts if you don’t go to the doctors but because of the headaches I was having offered me $500 and I accepted it over the phone. I was sent a release email for my signature but haven’t signed yet. I know nothing about how this stuff works, should I just take the money? Could I have gotten more if I would’ve said “idk” over the phone? One friend said they could get me a lawyer pro bono but idk if that would be worth it.

I'm on my mom's blue cross blue shield medicaid IL insurance and for some reason I was kicked off last month and now it says I'll be back on next month. My mom isn't sure why that happened. When I tried to make an appointment yesterday my bcbs insurance ID wasn't working when it always has. But I NEED to go to a hospital some time soon. Will my medicaid ID work or are they together? If it doesn't work does that mean I'll have to pay out of pocket if I go before next month.

Hello. I have mapfre insurance. I had a minor accident 2 weeks ago and submitted a claim on March 27th. They had me take pics of the damage(front bumper damage) I got my estimate from their electronic appraisal. I dropped off the car at an in network shop on Sunday, March 31st. That Monday the shop submitted a supplemental appraisal to have someone to check the car to approve more funds to get the car fixed from insurance. Since then there has not been an appraiser to come check my car at the shop. It’s been a week and it’s beginning to get frustrating. I was told many different stories on when an appraiser will come up until on Thursday an appraiser told me there was an issue in their system that prevented them from assigning an appraiser. I was told this past Friday that one has been assigned and will call the shop to schedule an appointment. The damage is minimal and the shop can fix the car in 2 days but can’t proceed without insurance. What are my options to make sure they have someone come on Monday? I’ve been without a car for a week and it’s been difficult to get around. Would love some advice on this issue!

I live in Minnesota where insurance companies are required to cover 48 hours of inpatient care after a vaginal birth. https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/cite/62A.0411#:~:text=Every%20health%20plan%20must%20provide,a%20mother%20and%20her%20newborn. My insurance (Medica) is trying to make me pay $1850 of the $8300 billed to them for room and board after I gave birth. The stay was less than 48 hours. Is this legal? Do I have a course of action here?

I was in a car accident yesterday. A person ran a red light as I was entering an intersection and ripped across the front of my car. Bumper cover was destroyed, and the hood won't open now. Unfortunately there were no witnesses (no one stopped, anyway), and the other person's insurance company (Allstate) says I'm at fault (I suspect the other driver lied about running the light). Is it worth the effort trying to sue for what is likely to be $10,000 or less in damage? Will it be possible to get an attorney to take such a small case?

Hello, and thanks in advance for any suggestions. I have a 2024 and a 2025 FSA - for simplicity lets say theres 750 in each. We had a hospital stay for the birth of a child, admit on 12/30/24 and discharge on 1/2/25. Total bill 800. I need to pay the 2024 expenses with the 2024 FSA, and 2025 with the new 2025 FSA. Hospital tells me to contact blue cross, blue cross tells me to contact hospital. Neither FSA companies help. Hospital gave a detailed invoice, but the invoice is a mess and impossible for me to split into services given in 2024/2025. The invoice shows the full charges before insurance. i asked blue cross to provide me with what I an responsibke for, split between the two years so I can call and manually charge each FSA for thier respective years… then pray the fsa will take the invoice as a reciept cus I cant get an EOB split by year… This is all a mess, Im exhausted with a baby and JUST WANT TO USE MY OWN MONEY I paid into these stupid FSA’s. To make it worse my employer chsnged FSA providers so I have 2 seperate fsa companies to submit these charges. Any tips?

So I went to an insurance agent to enroll with kaiser through covered ca at the end of January because it wouldn't let me online and I was told I'd get my insurance card and stuff sent to me in a week or two well flash forward to today and I called kaiser to try and order an insurance card and they have no record of me at all. Called covered ca and same thing so I guess when I went to enroll through him it didn't work idk if he did something wrong or if it was a system error or something idk. This is my first time applying for insurance since I just got off my parents insurance and I'm not sure how to proceed. I'm not sure how to apply without covered ca and how much more it would be. Any suggestions I called the guy and left a message and haven't heard back yet.