Ok I am FREAKING OUT

RBBRN · Mar 2, 2018

I have a false positive for cocaine. Never touched the stuff. Ever! Now i have to go for an evaluation with this? xxx. I don't know what to do anymore

Have Nurse, ADN, RN · Mar 3, 2018

Get a letter from your doctor to help regarding your medications if you are okay with it.

JxoRN · Mar 3, 2018

WHAT! omg. Go strong and of course don't admit to anything you didn't do!!!! I took an abx and it said it could be positive for cocaine, also never tried. But it didn't come up, so whatever, but I was waiting for it. I am feeling the same way. I don't want to do this anymore or know what to do anyone. I am still waiting for my PETH test results from the monitor officer (MRO) who I paid I guess $50 to call me.

- I got an email that i was being charged for an MRO to call me. Like ok? Why even tell me, like I have a choice. They also charged me $140 for the damn PETH test. I know they don't care....

catsmeow1972, BSN, RN · Mar 3, 2018

The lab that already charged you full price for the test is charging you again for the MRO to call you for the result??? What a racket!!!

Is the charge from the lab or the program?

Either way...still a racket.....

JxoRN · Mar 3, 2018

Um... I have no idea. Oh.. and I paid a $35 fee to have her draw my blood. It doesn't stop...

catsmeow1972, BSN, RN · Mar 3, 2018

Affinity tells you that you can keep money on account. I refuse to do this because I am not giving them a dime more then I have to any sooner than I have to. I am also very careful to untick the bit where it says to save my credit card info. You think I seriously want those crooks having unfettered access to my credit card info (not that it would get anyone very far, but still....)

I also refuse to go anywhere except LabCorp on the rational that the flat $55 I pay for this garbage is high enough. I'm not paying anyone else anymore for convenience. I do realize that not every has that luxury.

It does amuse me that some people think that we can get insurance to cover this mess. Um...they clearly don't know how insurance works. We can't get an order from these programs with a CPT and a Dr.s name on it so no insurance company is going to pay. Plus what the insurances would pay is a pittance compared to what they can scam us for....so no, it cannot be covered by insurance.....

No, it doesn't stop.......

JxoRN · Mar 3, 2018

They told me I had to put my cc info on my file... I may just take it off, if I can. I don't want them having unlimited access. I looked at my account 2 days ago and saw a random $52 charge. I asked and they said that was for the 2/16 drug test. Like what?!?!?! Also, with this $35 fee.. They made me go to this specific location and place. I looked up same test place, but a closer location ( they chose one 40 mins from my house with horrible traffic each way) they told me I couldn't go to another one bc that one was the ONLY one that can draw blood. Come to find out, the one close to me can, and their little list wasn't updated.

catsmeow1972, BSN, RN · Mar 3, 2018

Mmm...yeah, nobody can have unfettered access to my financials, what little of them are left after this butt whipping. No where in any contract does it say they get to have access to what is effectively my bank account. I don't carry credit cards because this has driven me into bankruptcy and no one in thier right mind would give me a credit card and that is just as well. So nope, no access to my tattered checkbook.

Look down on the bottom, I'll bet there is a little box you can un-tick that says "save CC info" You actually have to intentionally opt out of them saving it. Quite sneaky, I think.

These people know exactly what they do. This across the board, "oh, the list wasn't updated" or "oops, our bad, it was a mistake" is way too consistent to be believable. I just wonder how stupid they think we all are. The problem is that the frauds that run the monitoring programs (and thier associated cronies in the rehab/babysitting programs) know that folks with addiction histories who may have diverted or who have alcohol issues or have mental health diagnoses tend to (at least to greater society) not make the most believable accusers. In short, they have the upper hand and they use it to thier extreme advantage.

At least this is how I see it. And I don't think I'm blind (at least not with my glasses on) or paranoid (most of the time anyway) but much time dealing with these idiots will definitely up the paranoia factor.

JxoRN · Mar 3, 2018

I'm going to do that. And then do they just send you a bill or notification when they charge you. Bc, if I didn t keep track and ask they would just charge whenever. I feel as when I message the girl from recovery grej she gets super annoyed. Like I give a crap...

Recovering_RN · Mar 3, 2018

I'm going to do that. And then do they just send you a bill or notification when they charge you. Bc, if I didn t keep track and ask they would just charge whenever. I feel as when I message the girl from recovery grej she gets super annoyed. Like I give a crap...

I keep a zero balance all the time, then on the day I am selected to test, in Affinity there's a "fund test" or something like that, and I authorize the $55.00 for that day's test. I am quite sure they will never just bill you, they want the money up front. But that doesn't mean you have to put any additional money in the Affinity account, just enough to do one test, and only deposited on the day of the test.

Kel65, MSN, RN · Mar 3, 2018

Texas didn't charge for my MRO but the peth was 140.00 and then 35.00 for lab draw. I requested the peth though to loudly underline my sobriety.

Eris Discordia BSN, RN · Mar 3, 2018

I'm going to do that. And then do they just send you a bill or notification when they charge you. Bc, if I didn t keep track and ask they would just charge whenever. I feel as when I message the girl from recovery grej she gets super annoyed. Like I give a crap...

My state requires you to have a CC or debit on file because they do not bill the day of the test, they bill you when they receive the test result from the test processing company (i.e. Affinity or Recovery Trek). And how fast the results come back varies wildly. Sometimes they take my money 4 days after the test, sometimes it takes them 10 days. It's hard to budget when I don't know if the test is coming out this paycheck or the next one, you know?

That being said, there are credit card style prepaid gift cards that work just like a Visa. I've found that I can preload that card with the minimum they require that I have available on a real CC or debit, put that as my CC for the program, and just refill the credit on the gift card as the balance dips.