Movement Intelligence

01/25/2024

WHOLE BODY BOOT CAMP?!?

I am reaching out to assess interest. Might you be interested in joining the next one?

I created this 6-week program of slow build strength and cardio a few years ago, and have done it several times, loving it! I successfully completed each camp. I lost several inches each time,(!), even though the emphasis is on holistic health. Last week I started another, this time four friends have joined me! It’s even better with friends.

Here are the general details…

WHEN: March 9 - April 19 2024. 6 weeks.

WHO: 10 people. You want to give more attention to your health. You love the immersive group approach but dislike the hard core boot camps that use extreme methods or that omit your holistic needs. You want flexibility within a supportive group system. You need core strength. You want to be ready for summer. You need a boot in the arse in order to carve time out for your physical needs. IF LOSING POUNDS is important, this won’t work for you. IF LOSING INCHES from your hips, waist, and several other places is cool, this is for you. IF A KICK OFF WITH PRO SUPPORT is what you need to begin your own lifelong self-care, this might be your gig!

WHAT: a 6 week daily program of strength, cardio, and optional ala carte goals, like diet or smoking/alcohol cessation. A holistic and somatic daily cardio and strength workout are the “mandatory “ aspects. In addition, you can choose to add more goals (why not???). What you choose within the basics is very individualized.

WHERE: anywhere, it’s online via email and text and optional social media.*

WHY: my approach is about creating a habit of self care, physical and mental. It’s a slow, gentle-ish, cumulative approach. Almost too easy, that’s the mind trick. The main goals are to show up every day for yourself, to build core strength as you slowly add aerobic minutes (only one minute per day!). These methods prevent injury and burn out.

How: Judgement free, participation-forward, and reflective-friendly are all parts of “whole body” Using a “boot buddy” accountability system and a simple chart record, you commit to 42 days (6 weeks) of cardio and strength workouts. We take measurements and weight at the start and at the end. Each workout is shared with your boot buddy (or buddies, we currently have a group of five) via text pics every darn day! It’s incredibly rewarding to have the peer support. I also encourage folks to find joyful exercise, for example I achieve cardio thru riding my horse and tap dancing, but I also like the elliptical or swimming. We have mandatory rewards, at 3 weeks and at 6. The final reward is the only group in-person activity*.

Price: $600

*Optional Possibility— I may offer Pilates mat every single day! If so, I’ll also offer equipment classes (for extra $). We shall see…

Thanks for reading all the way to the end🥳. Thoughts? -Hallie

01/10/2023

My name is Hallie Aldrich, LMP. This is the email I sent to my representatives, the press, and the unfortunate members.

Don’t just give up on taking insurance. Don’t just hire a lawyer to “read” the contract for you.

Fight back.

Feel free to copy and paste and send to your people, change the details, make it your own.

And if you would like to sign a petition for attention from legislators, please comment below.
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Dear people,
You are a congress person, a Premera employee or department or member, a journalist, or an insurance oversight representative. I hope one of you or more will resolve an issue that I cannot.

Premera has a problem. It asks me to provide healthcare services for its members, as performed by myself and my contracted therapists, but Premera does not pay for these services. The problem is that simple, it is fraud. Premera is performing fraudulent activity under the guise of system or policy error.

Premera owes me at least $8,914. It has so for over six months. And $2500 in late fees, and $.09 compound interest on all that is over 30 days delinquent, which is all of the dates of service for which my group practice has provided Premera members massage therapy, as covered by their policies. This amount exceeds $11,000. This amount does not include my lost income as a healthcare provider who is spending her patient billing hours on an unprecedented amount of administrating. I have attached the invoice below in the body of this email.

This financial abuse is 100% Premera’s fault. It started when I requested a fee schedule before I signed my network contract, a contract “privilege” that I have been applying for since 2014. I was finally accepted into the network last spring. I asked for a fee schedule before signing, and I was sent a fee schedule, one that was reasonable. So I started submitting bills. But I received Premera payments of a substandard amount—not the stated fee schedule of $113, but of $60 per hour (which is also Aetna and Kaiser’s antiquated rate for in network payments). It turns out that I was originally sent the wrong fee schedule and the correct one is $60/hour. But Premera will honor it... and this began a series of emails and calls (calls only after I spent weeks tracking down a direct line to a caring person) over the course of six months. This series of correspondences did not result in my being paid. Why? Not because of an error on my part. I have not been paid because PREMERA’S SYSTEM IS SO INEPT THAT NOT EVEN A PREMERA EMPLOYEE CAN NAVIGATE IT CORRECTLY. To find those at fault please climb to the top offices of the corporation. These people could easily conduct professional good will—a basic business tenet—and pull out a ledger and pay me with a drafted check, but they do not.

Premera's conduct is completely illegal. The insurance commissioner’s office has complicated reasons for why and who they can help, to whom I’ve reached out to, but from whom I have not received effective assistance. And to add insult to injury, the Premera problem is only the top of my stack. Next on my collections list is Kaiser, Aetna, and American Specialty Health for similar arbitrary, inept, or capricious reasons.

This started in June. Premera still owes all or part of my allowed fees from April 30 2022 to the present, and this is true for all but a few, literally 3, Premera patient service dates.

I have included the names and emails of all the people that I have added to this email. You are paid for your job while I am not. I am hoping that one of you finds yourself compelled by positional, political, or community duty to help Premera resolve their problem and/or by championing my story, a very specific one that reflects the choke hold an entire system of insurance networks wields over a country full of healthcare providers. It’s no wonder why insurance members cannot find a provider that is in network— the smart ones gave up!

Your action is my solution. This is now a community problem in the form of my paycheck. If you plan to help me collect $8,914 (plus) then please contact Carrie Johannesen directly and cc me, Carrie.Johannesen@premera.com. Please do not go directly through me, as I have exhausted all possible solutions. Carrie has been designated as my direct contact by someone, I'm not sure who, some supervisor whose team is allowing all of this to happen, as is approved by Premera’s policy of blatant, financially abusive, capricious, arbitrary priority of paperwork over provider. But Carrie has the answers that you need, please reach out to her directly. If you are a journalist intent on collecting information for your story, please feel free to reach out! If you are a member/patient, please reach out to Premera with your feelings on the situation, which is, aside from your deductible or copay, that zero of your bill has been paid.

I didn’t send this email sooner because I thought, to myself, no, this is almost over, this will be resolved soon, finally.

That was a month ago. After months and months of thinking the same thing.

Thank you for your time and support,

Hallie Aldrich
Movement Specialist

Pilates Master Instructor
Trager® Bodywork Practitioner
Licensed MassageTherapist

11/07/2022

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