Bill Sense

Part of rewarding good choices and helping a bit was paying the dental deductible for Elizabeth and Tanya. Tanya needed quite a bit of work done so I also chose to pay the co-pay for her extractions. I didn't tell her about that at the time assuming she would figure it out when she got the bill. This occurred in May. Enough time has passed that I asked her if it got credited to her account. She didn't know. So this prompted a small discussion on how do you know the bill is correct then. Man, oh man. She said she just assumed that it all worked out. There were too many numbers on the bill for her to be bothered figuring it out. I'm sure that my payment was credited correctly, but she can't tell me for sure. She is going to call on Monday and verify.
So now I have a story to tell her about bills. We also go to the dentist and use insurance. Once the dentist has all his money he no longer sends us a bill as we owe nothing. I pay attention and realized we had overpaid. Our dentist being the good businessman just leaves the credit on account rather than sending it back to us. I had to call and verify that I had a credit and then asked for a check. That check had to have the approval of the dentist and the accountant. Had I just ignored all the numbers the dentist office would have had use of our money till the next time we had work done. Me, I prefer to use my money myself and pay my bills as they are due.