Re: cea & Insurance

[Guest guest]

I like the idea of petitioning Bill Clinton and Ted Kennedy. I think

the last famous person to publicly support rosacea research was WC

Fields. He left a 100,000 reward for whoever finds the cure. I

guess famous folks may to be too vain these days to admit to having

this. What they dont realize is that they would have thousands of

supporters; people suffering in silence.

Patty

> Hi Group,

>

> A lot of members have posted questions about how to get their

insurance

> companies to pay for their rosacea treatments. I belong to a

> bottom-of-the-barrel HMO which repeatedly denied my doctor's

request to

> treat me with accutane. They insisted that accutane was only used

to

> treat severe, cystic acne. After paying out-of-pocket for four

months,

> I gathered up all the literature I've collected and xeroxed

sections of

> Dr. Nase's book on rhinophyma & accutane. My doctor then wrote a

letter

> to the insurance company and included my research. Surprisingly,

the

> insurance company has agreed to pay for my accutane. Now, I have to

> pressure them to pay for my V-Beams.

>

> The bottom line is: ask your doctor to write a letter for you,

include

> your research and make sure the letter goes to the right person. It

> just may work.

>

> Good luck to you all,

> Heidi

>

> P.S. I am also thinking of petitioning Bill Clinton & Ted Kennedy

to

> help us out on this as they both clearly have rhinophyma. cea

is

> not just a cosmetic disease -- it's a chronic, life-long disorder

that

> can severely impair one's quality of life.