Tried adding pics but the rules won't allow me 🥲 Howdy Everyone, I'm posting on here hoping to get some help. Background: My wife and I bought this home about 3 years ago with signs of potential termite treatment( burrowed holes 1ft apart the whole house). We live in a plant hardiness zone 10a? I googled it. We didn't see it as an issue since there was no sign of existent pests or insects. The house was left abandoned for several years though with overgrown grass. The neighbors would take turns cutting the grass since it's a community and thus house was not being kept up. Anyways, we buy it and within a year, we see small ants crawling around the house. We didn't see it as a problem since there weren't that many and it's honestly quote normal to just see a couple of an wondering around. A year later, around spring season, in a couple walls from a room, we see a discharge of trash come out of the bottom from between the walls. It had dirt, dead ants and wings seems to be carpenter ants. Immediately we call a couple of exterminators and they both concluded it was carpenter ants. Ok fine, we went with orkin services which sold us a contract to treat inside and outside. A year goes by and we are still sewing these ants crawling up the house from outside and the discharge every now and then. After constant contacts with Orkin and them coming to treat them we didn't see any progress with them. We decided to not renew our contract. We called and they insisted on sending out a tech to check out the issue. The guy gave me a rundown that it is definelty a carpenter ant and that they need to treat specifically for that..which I though that's what they had been doing. Apparently he said that we had just been getting the common pest control plan. WHAT?!?! The issue is not common pest but a pest specifically!! I got mad, they tried to sell me more services and then a perimeter cleanse and what not. He kept insisiting on selling me the 10k services. Kicked him out the house respectfully and blocked their number. Present: Which leads me to now. I'm now trying to treat the ants myself and bought these terro ant bait stakes, terro liquid ant baits for indoor, and the Terro ant killer shaker bag I've had these for about 3 weeks now and the ant seem to be eating it but there are still so many ants coming into the home. I see them going into the stakes and piling it up with dirt as if they were closing these baits off. Smart Mfkrs lol Anvone have anv more ideas on what I could do? I also tried plugging up the holes but they just creat new ones lol

With all the posts regarding Healthy Paws rate increase I was worried about my renewal. I am happy to saw that I just received it and it has not increased. It is staying the same at the moment. However, I will wait to see because a couple years ago there was a discrepancy and in August they sent me a new notice increasing me by $20. Fingers crossed that does not happen again. I was expecting a huge increase living in NYC.

Hey everyone. Need some insight from anyone who can chime in! So I am with Allstate Insurance. I had a collision with my truck (driving slow, hit a patch of black ice and my truck goes right into a transformer box(those green boxes that you usually see somewhere in a residential area ) and my truck is totaled. It’s been 2 months since I’ve filed the claim and I’ve basically heard nothing since. I have been calling 3-4 times a week, leaving 2-3 emails a week. Basically nothing. Just curious what should I do since it seems like claims never should take this long?

I just had my first mammogram (just turned 40). My breast are extremely dense. Otherwise, normal/negative mammogram. I did the ABUS and now they want me to come back for additional ultrasound due to artifact versus true mass. At this point, I don’t really trust the ultrasound because of how dense my breasts are. The ultrasound lady kinda laughed at how white the screen was after she did the imaging. So here is my question: has anyone with extremely dense breasts ever gotten a screening mri of breast covered for extremely dense breasts? Not really counting on being able to do it as a screening test at this point because I’m probably now only able to diagnostic tests due to the ABUS findings. Asking for future testing mostly. I called BCBS and they were useless. I asked “if I have extremely dense breasts and my doctor puts that as the ICD:10 for a screening mri of breast will it be covered?” It lists screening mri of breasts as covered on my EOB. The lady on the phone couldn’t answer me. Appreciate any insight. Thank you!

I opened my bank account yesterday and my jaw dropped to see a hefty bill of $519.67 from Healthy Paws!! I have been their customer for more than 10 years and they took care of my pets....They covered an expensive procedure about 3 years back and I felt nothing but grateful...Their claim submission process is very simple....No recent high amount bills from my end (just regular procedures in the last 2 years!!) ....I referred my friends to them...And I was a happy customer until today...I understand that companies sometimes need to increase their rate but to increase it by 323% !!! ... I am just sad and devastated...You value your kids'/pets' health more than yours...I just paid $160.49 a month ago..if they had to increase the rate to $200.00 or $215.00, I would have understood...But this rate hikes is truly unjustified...I am planning to report it...My heart is broken....I wanted to let people know..

I need some opinions on what to do. This is an odd situation. In past “pay up front cash” dental visits, the dentist offices, with a week or two, returned to me the covered expense/reimbursement from Blue Cross after they submitted the claim. However, this time, I went to an oral surgeon bc I needed a molar extraction that was complicated. I paid $1800 up front on credit card no problem. I would’ve paid double that with all the pain. About a week later I saw that I was covered for ~ $500 on the claim. A check was sent to oral surgeon’s office. When I called them they told me they were processing it and to be patient. This was a couple MONTHS ago. I last called on Monday 7/21 and was literally told, “check’s in the mail”. That’s pretty funny, especially since it is now Friday night and, of course, no check. Something quite fishy about this. I wonder if Blue Cross can do something. I’m interested in thoughts on this. TIA!

I had signed up for trupanion pet insurance after reading good reviews. Now my dog had a CCL rupture and needs surgery. They refused to cover ANY costs because they classified limping as a pre-existing illness. After my vet send them a lengthy letter (as seen in picture) they STILL denied coverage saying they do not cover any CCL injuries that occur within 18 MONTHS!!!!!! Absolute waste of time and money. My vet hates them too. Have cancelled my subscription.

TN/ Progressive So i damaged my car a few weeks ago. My insurance sent my car to a body shop. Body shop had stated needing to disassemble the car but like also needing to wait for a mechanic to do so because if something was wrong the mechanic would need to fix it. Issue is they don’t have an in house mechanic and parts needed to be ordered. The mechanic didn’t come in after parts arrived until a day or two later. Now as they are fixing it, they need other parts ordered. This is quoted to take a whole extra week after 2 weeks with my car only being actually worked on a few days ago. A friend said I should express more frustration and should get some sort of compensation. I’m not sure what kind to expect or from who. I feel like my insurance should have sent my vehicle to a place that would have properly fixed it at the quoted time which was a reasonable time frame. But now it’s quieted for a week later and interfering with tracking I have. Can I get my insurance to pay for a rental e

I was referred by my PCP to a physical therapist and was going regularly to appointments where I was only charged a $15 copay. However, after one of my appointments where my PT used a new technique (biofeedback training), my insurance is saying that service is denied and trying to charge me upwards of $400 for this one appointment. My insurance provider is United Healthcare. When I go to their website and try to "estimate cost" of this procedure (code #90912) it says that it should be covered by my $15 copay. However, when I called United to ask why it was denied, they said that there was a form called a PRA that they sent to my provider and it was not returned, so they didn't have enough information and denied it. I was told by the provider, my PT, that she never got this form and I also reached out to the billing department for the medical group, Sutter, to have them try and follow up with insurance or look into it, and was told that they would and I'd hear back within 30-45 days. Now my insurance is saying that, since they denied my first appeal, I only had so long to appeal that and the deadline is approaching. The "patient advocate" told me that either myself or the provider has to write a letter to United Healthcare Escalation center and ask for a secondary appeal, but was super vague on what exactly to say or write. I called back Sutter, since it had taken so long. They said they had 30-45 "business days" to review it, but they'd mark it as highest priority. I don't think I should wait for them, but am unsure what exactly I can say to get United to resend these forms that my provider says she never received. Any guidance?

Just switched from Embrace Pawprotect to Trupanion... Can't seem to find an app for it in the google play store. What kind of insurance company doesn't have a mobile app in the year 2025? 😭