RE: insurance was: Thoughtful House; ready to move on

[Guest guest]

I agree with what

you said Vera. I also want to mention that we shouldn’t just assume that

you won’t get insurance reimbursement and not submit the claims. I just

assumed my insurance wouldn’t pay any of it. At the end of last year I

spoke with our compounding pharmacist and he ran all our prescriptions through

insurance-we had been paying cash/cc previously. They covered everything- we

had a $40 or $25 co-pay. Covered B12, TD-glut, TD-DMPS, TD-ALA. I went back and

submitted all the old Rx’s as well as labs: OAT, Urine metals, stool

metals, RBC elements. For the labs they covered all of them 100%. I got

reimburse for all the Rx’s except one that was not within the year that

you have to submit.

I realize that

others aren’t as lucky as we are with insurance, but don’t assume

they won’t like I did. I’m just glad I had that conversation with

the pharmacist.

Becky

While it is easy to just blame the DANs and the

insurance companies, they are not the ones who created the problem. Of

course insurance companies are where we need to start, but if

insurance companies started covering biomed, the costs would be immediately

passed on to employers who would then pass it back on to the employees.

We do not have a choice but to push for coverage -- but it is Pharma and the

government who are responsible -- not Blue Cross. (I totally digressed).