Guest guest Posted August 8, 2002 Report Share Posted August 8, 2002 Thanks Debbie, I'll research the archives. Thanks so much for your help! Tina & Chase --- debbieandabby <dj2kirby@...> wrote: > Tina: > Oh yes, Cigna is an all too familiar insurance > carrier mentioned in > our group. Gail will be all over this one. She's > been fighting for > mos with Cigna to get her twins DOCbands covered. > There have been > some appeals of Cigna recently though that have been > approved, so > there is hope for you. > The Hanger Band has been mentioned in here before > and we have several > parents whose child has used it. You can search our > group archives > by typing " Hanger " in the box then all posts with > Hanger will show > up, month by month (keep clicking " next " when you > are done). I can't > remember hearing anything really bad about it, so > that's good! > My daughter, Abby began wearing her DOCband at 11.5 > mos of age, she > wore one band for 4.5 mos and had about 50-60% > correction of her > severe plagio., so even though Chase is a bit older, > he could still > get good correction! > Good luck. > Debbie Abby' smom 3/1/00 DOCGrad 2/16/01-6/22/01 > MI > > > > > > Hello, My name is Tina. I live in Arizona > and > > > have 2 beautiful > > > > children, Jade, 3 years and Chase, 9 months. > My > > > son Chase > > > > was diagnosed with Plagiocephaly. His dr. > wants > > > him to see a > > > > specific place that uses the DOC band, but the > > > insurance denied > > > > it because they have a contract through > another > > > place that uses > > > > a different type of band. This whole referral > > > process first began > > > > on June 26th and we just got denied on August > > > 6th!!!! I was > > > > wondering if any of you have advice on appeals > to > > > your insurance > > > > companies. I'd appreciate any help you could > > > give. I don't want > > > > my son going to some crockpot place and have > them > > > screw up > > > > his head even worse. > > > > > > > > Thanks for your help, > > > > Tina > > > > > > > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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