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You need to consider your health first and only. You get the anesthesia and then you either ignore the bills or pay a little bit what you can. Either way eventually you’ll be able to close it out by paying maybe half.
Alternatively, you can tell the doc to either give you the anesthesia for free or go with the insurance attitude and have the procedure without it and - should something go wrong because it is not what you are supposed to do - then you have yourself a juicy malpractice suit for them.
The investors who make money from this bullshit write our laws. That’s the problem. We allowed it to happen by having such dumb fucking morons for citizenry who vote for these monsters who then turn around and rape them. And then they vote for them again. Our people are mostly absolute morons who can’t think for themselves and so they follow the shiniest trinket they obey the loudest voice with the bleached smile and the most promises.
And yes, conservatives are to blame and yes, there are awful liberals as well but the simple truth is republicans need to fucking die. They are a deadly cancer to our society because all they do is ruin everything except their own pockets.
Doc will not provide anesthesia for free. The insurance company will not budge.
I'm not in a situation where I can just keep hopping over doctors while they all send me to collections, even though $600 is too much to swallow at the moment.
If I do end up with any form of GI cancer, a lawsuit against the insurer seems pretty reasonable.
I’m really sorry for your situation. I would personally just get it done, commit to paying them and then just stretch it out maybe a few bucks at a time. Your health is more important. But I do wish you the best of health.
I was on Medicaid for many years but I’m really lucky now my wife is in the teachers union and we have very decent insurance. But the entire system is a big stinking chaotic farce to which the terms “broken” and “mayhem” are even too light to apply.
But as long as our government is in the employ of the 1% nothing is gonna change. We seriously need to start stringing up some billionaires and take their money for everyone.
I have Blue Cross and Blue Shield. a mid-upper tier plan. They just decided to stop covering this.
WTF? I have to say this makes no sense to me. I think you need to double and triple check, try another facility perhaps? Something. To cover a colonoscopy but not anesthesia is unheard of, and even freakin Medicaid would pay for it.
https://www.anthem.com/dam/medpolicies/abcbs/active/guidelines/gl_pw_a050126.html
Anthem BCBS classifies it as not medically necessary so they will not pay for it since April of this year.
Jesus. That’s disgusting.
Edit: Hang on I just skimmed that document it seems to indicate it IS considered medically necessary.
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Uncooperative or acutely agitated individuals. Tell the doc to tell the insurance that it makes you crazy without it and you can’t tolerate it. Jeez is your doctor new at doing these things? That’s what they do they submit whatever criteria is accepted that they don’t have to prove with charts.
When Boston BCBS did it they put their clause in to include fear of the procedure. Aetna is apparently in the running for biggest piece of s***.
Well I sincerely wish you the best. But I would put up a fight and keep fighting.
It's not big enough on the news yet when everybody finds out this is what's going on they'll raise a big enough stink to get it reversed.
Yeah I hope so. This is not the place to cut corners. Fucking downright indecent.
So you should contact news stations ask them to run something on it.
The people here already spoke of the option of medical tourism, can't you look up that ? A colonoscopy is not some advanced tech, any decent hospital in latin america will be able to do that. Since you earn US dollars, you could research about making a trip to Mexico (possibly the cheapest option, because it can be done by bus or car), Cuba (possibly the cheapest too, because of the conversion rate and short plane distance), Brazil, etc for the travel, lodging and procedure (and even a little tourism too if you have the time and will XD ).
I'm mid-atlantic. Procedure + flight + basic accommodation is still around 2/3 of the anesthesia. Medical tourism works well when you're uninsured or when the whole procedure isn't covered. Sadly, I'm already paying a fortune for the insurance. It's a mid-high plan Blue Cross. F'ing insane they're taking this line.