Thanks, BR! I talked to the therapist and the billing person at the office today and they said I shouldn't worry. Very understanding. I live in a small town with a good amount of people with low budgets, so I'm probably not the first. They said they would let me pay next week no problem, and will bill me. They were totally sweet about it, very nice people.
BTW, D9 talked to H today (a rare phone call from him to see what she was doing she said) and told him I wasn't going to take her to therapy. I had told her we would go and ask them to bill us, and if that didn't work out I planned to just reschedule for next week and she didn't understand I guess. I just wanted her to be prepared in case we had to reschedule b/c autistic kids (at least mine and I think others) do horrible with changes or interruptions like rescheduling. It's majorly upsetting to them.
So then I felt I had to email H and tell him, I am taking her to the therapists but will have to ask them to bill me next week or reschedule. He did not email back with any concern about the financials or concern over her possibly not getting her therapies. His L never emailed back my L in the past week either. My guess is they decided to do nothing in an effort to drag this out and not pay any of their copays or partial as long as possible as by the time we wait for answer from them and set hearing it may be awhile.
From everyone I've talked to copays are usually split between the parents and not one person paying them, esp. when our kids copays are $400 to $500 a month right now because of autism-related expenses.
Saw my L today when I dropped off the kid's evals at her office. She said do you want to set it for hearing re: the copays and I said yes, b/c I can't pay them and she should have them. I do think H just thinks about $$$ rather than his own kids welfare. I'm just a completely different person than my H. Karen
