Re: Red Tape !!!!

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Don't cha just LOVE the buracracy?? Wonder what the insurance

company does do also. As my daughter's psychologist ( who happened to

be married to her neurologist...long story) told me...if I wasn't

such a persistant bitch I wouldn't have gotten her diagnosis as

quickly as I did. I was lucky to get an immediate dx of cp. My best

advice is to be nice but very firm with the insurance co and your Dr.

Did the insurance co say that you needed a referral for a pain

management Dr? If not, let me know where you are located. My pain Dr.

said he would research good docs in other areas of the country so I

can post them on the board. I lucked out with a gem of a Dr. as well

as a human being with mine.

Hope you are having a pain free day.

Peace,

N'Awlins Gal

-- In pancreatitis@y..., " shelleytinsley2257 "

wrote:

> Hello, all! I just spent an hour on the phone with my insurance

> company and surgeon's office - can we say HEADACHE!!! Why is it

that

> you can never get a straight answer from anyone? I gave the

> insurance company the code for the auto islet transplant, and they

> said they couldn't tell me if it was covered. " We don't do that. "

> What do they do?

>

> I cancelled my Puestow/Partial (whichever one he was going to do)

for

> October 11. I just can't justify having a procedure that is more

> than likely going to throw me into diabetes. For right now, I

don't

> have that disease (Thank God), so I just wish to keep it that way.

> My surgeon told me that I would more than likely end up with

diabetes

> if I have the partial pancreatectomy. He thought this would be the

> procedure he would have to do, because of the stricture around my

> pancreatic duct. So, anyway, I asked his med asst. if he refers

> patient to pain mgmt. docs. She said she would ask. I just told

her

> it wasn't feasible for me to drive to Louisville everytime I have

> pancreatitis and that the ER thinks I'm a drug addict. He is the

> only pancreatic surgeon in a fairly close range to me, and he is so

> caring - but, he is caught up in not treating long term pain. So,

> she's checking. I just can't run up there in the middle of an

attack

> and wait for an hour or three in his lobby for him to write me a

> prescription!

>

> Sorry for the ranting - I guess I just know you guys have to deal

> with the same junk all the time, as well. I'm going home and on to

> church. Maybe I'll feel better tonight. No meds for two whole

days!

> Yeah!

>

> Prayers for pain-free days to all of you-

>

> in KY