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Re: I can hardly wait to do this

By: De_Composed in 6TH POPE | Recommend this post (0)
Tue, 27 Feb 24 1:59 AM | 25 view(s)
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A desk person at my hospital called (a bit back) to schedule me for an MRI. She asked when would be good for me and I said my schedule was wide open - except for March 21st when I'll be having a colonoscopy. "So not then," I said.

The woman then said, "I have a spot open on the day before. Would that work?"

"The day before?" I asked. "I'll be prepping for the colonoscopy, but sure. Is your machine easy to wash?"

She had a difficult time getting through the rest of the call.

My MRI will be on the 25th.

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Re: I can hardly wait to do this
By: De_Composed in 6TH POPE
Tue, 27 Feb 24 1:48 AM 		Msg. 50606 of 60008

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Re: “One of these days I'll go back down to the cardiologist and have him check this out.. My CT scans are okay.. So what is up with the jolt ?”I'm sorry to hear about that.

When I wore my heart meter for two weeks, nothing was detected related to the symptoms I had described. But at a time when I'd felt nothing unusual, the meter detected ventricular tachycardia. My doctor said it didn't last 30 seconds - which would have put it into a different, more-serious class - but that it was still a potential risk. "A potential risk of what?" I asked. "A risk of sudden death." he said.

Okay. I guess that's a concern.

He said he wanted to do an MRI just to see what is going on. I received paperwork from my insurance company saying that it was denying the request due to insufficient evidence of a need but that the requesting doctor can appeal the decision within 14 days. A second letter said he can appeal within 60 days. The paperwork said that he'd been informed. I waited 14 days and heard nothing. I waited 35 days and heard nothing. I called my cardiologist's office and asked about it and they said, "You were denied? We were wondering about it. We received nothing!" So they filed a very late appeal and waited. The insurance company denied the appeal.

My cardiologist called to tell me and to say that he was just going to re-submit the request, including everything but the kitchen sink. TWO DAYS LATER I was called by my hospital to schedule the MRI. I told them I hadn't heard yet from my insurance company which had been balking at the request. They said, "Oh, they approved it already."

LOL. It pays to be persistent.

I'm not on Medicare yet. Good thing! I wonder how that would have gone. Is Medicare better or worse about approving expensive tests? I would think worse. After all, practically everyone who kicks the bucket is on it.

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