European visiting the US, so it’s going to be pretty mild.
This was early January, 2021, so I needed a negative covid test before I could start the one month of work I had planned (my reason for being there).
Me: “Noted. I see there’s a clinic across the street from my hotel, I can have it done tomorrow morning.”
Shoreside rep: "Sorry, can’t do that here. It has to be this specific clinic with which we have an agreement.
Me: “How about my travel insurance, won’t they cover it anywhere?”
Rep: “We don’t know that until billing, and then you’d have to expense the copay, which management doesn’t like”
That’s when I learned wtf “copay” is. I had loads to do the day after, but I spent most of the day in a car, back and forth, so that I could visit this one specific clinic for a test that took five minutes.
And if Houston city planners weren’t bribed by Big Concrete and Big Car Dealership, I’m sure the ride would have been significantly shorter as well. As a sidenote, I find it pervertedly fascinating that Houston is a city that somehow manages to be located surprisingly far from Houston itself.
European visiting the US, so it’s going to be pretty mild.
This was early January, 2021, so I needed a negative covid test before I could start the one month of work I had planned (my reason for being there).
Me: “Noted. I see there’s a clinic across the street from my hotel, I can have it done tomorrow morning.”
Shoreside rep: "Sorry, can’t do that here. It has to be this specific clinic with which we have an agreement.
Me: “How about my travel insurance, won’t they cover it anywhere?”
Rep: “We don’t know that until billing, and then you’d have to expense the copay, which management doesn’t like”
That’s when I learned wtf “copay” is. I had loads to do the day after, but I spent most of the day in a car, back and forth, so that I could visit this one specific clinic for a test that took five minutes.
And if Houston city planners weren’t bribed by Big Concrete and Big Car Dealership, I’m sure the ride would have been significantly shorter as well. As a sidenote, I find it pervertedly fascinating that Houston is a city that somehow manages to be located surprisingly far from Houston itself.