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xcziel · 2 months ago

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my health insurance company just sent me some kind of testing kit in the mail

i didn't ask for this kit, or agree to submit to any tests, and they didn't ask *me* if i wanted it or was willing to do it, it just showed up

i don't know this company that is evidently behind these kits, i've never interacted with it before, and now they are emailing me telling me to hurry up and do the test and mail it back right away???

like nowhere is there anything saying why i would be willing to do this? my insurance company is not a health provider - and i didn't ask it to connect me with any test-by-mail companies?

i *have* a doctor and in fact have an appointment in a few weeks?

does anyone have any experience with this kind of thing? i worry that by submitting this test i'm somehow signing up for something with this random test company. i haven't signed anything or given any approval for them to have access to my medical information, and i feel like sending back the test would be tacitly doing so?

is the insurance company within rights to do this or are they just giving me the 'bum rush' assuming i won't know any better? literally no communication has been from the actual ins. company but everything (envelope, email forwarding) is branded from them

#they're asking me to send in a test for my a1c - but i get that from my doctor every six months?#they keep also sending me sign-up things for some kind of 'free' diabetes management service which #i am not interested. especially because i have a bunch of other things going on health-wise #and am not comfortable with some kind of 'no-medication' prescribed diet plan from people who don't know anything #about other aspects of my health #like they keep sending things about the dangers of 'unmedicated' diabetes ...#... even as they cover my metformin prescription i've had for 2 and half years now?#i am really confused and suspicious because what in the world #i get that 'no meds' may be cheaper from their standpoint but with my thyroid and the anemia and probable long covid #that is not going to work for me and i don't want to give them ammunition #also i don't want some random company i've never heard of doing my medical tests #this is stress i don't need

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