I personally would not give anyone my CC for them just to charge whatever, or whenever they decided on how much. Just the fact that she was so vague about the charges, would have my eternal bells going off..They do the blood draw at my Dr's office and I pay for all the service's at one time with my co-pay, visit, blood work, and/or shots if necessary or whatever... In fact I over paid back in March which I did not realize at the time as it was around the amount I normally pay, but due to the fact that they did not run some of the test the doctor ordered, I should not have been charged a co-pay on this part of the visit... and just got 22.00 dollars back last week, so almost 7 months for a refund, which I was not expecting. So Yay to refund...Nope to giving anyone my CC to just have free rein...nope not happening.
I had another thought. My Uncle managed all of my grandmothers financial needs (they had a joint CC so he could take care of her payments), so he paid her regular bills, and dealt with Medicare, the supplemental, and the secondary supplemental insurance, over all she was fairly healthy, so trying to keep everything straight was not to hard, but once her health started declining things got really sticky and he would insist on a detailed billed from all parties, before paying the bill, due to the over billing, double and even triple over billing. Keeping up with all this became almost a full time job, and trying to get a corrections would make you want to pull out all your hair. Then when she went to the nursing home it was worse. So when one of us, my mom and dad or myself would take her to the doctors before she went to the nursing home, we would get a detailed bill right then, you would be surprised at how different it would be when he would get the ones in the mail. In one month he found 6,000.00 dollars worth of over billing issues... We lost my grandmother last year in November, so almost a year now. Last month he got a late notice on a doctors bill for a visit in February of this year, how could this be when she passed away 3 months earlier. When he called to let them know there was a mistake, the office manager was beyond rude, and said they don't make mistakes, he had to take her death certificate to prove to the office manager, to get the bill removed. So my point in all this would be if they had the CC back in February, they would have just charge the CC, then my uncle would have had to deal with trying to get his money back.