My Vest upgrade went through insurance!!

[LouLou]

My hard work has paid off...
I got the call last night at 5:45 pm EST that my insurance BCBS has approved my request for an upgrade to the Hill-Rom Vest 104. I will be trading in my 103 and BCBS will be paying the $6,000 so that I can have the more portable 104 version.

You know you have CF when a DME approval like this feels like the best gift you've received in years. Yes, even better than the 10 caret citren ring I received (I'm sure you understand DH)

I will blog about it sometime and maybe even post my draft of the medical necessity letter I wrote for my clinic in order to help speed things along in the approval process.

 

[welshgirl]

congrats lauren . i hope you have many happy hours vibrating away .( no sniggering at the back. LOL)

 

[blindhearted]

Congrats Lauren! It is a great feeling. I also have BCBS (regional) and they did the same thing for me. Approved the upgrade for 6000 and trade in my old one. You will like the smaller one, a lot easier to take move around and you can take it on trips. It took me a good 6 months or more to get approved. I had to request a casemanager and get her help.

 

[JazzysMom]

<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote><i>Originally posted by: <b>welshgirl</b></i>

congrats lauren . i hope you have many happy hours vibrating away .( no sniggering at the back. LOL)</end quote></div>


TOOO LATE.....congrats on the payoff of your hard work & determination!

 

[Lilith]

Congratulations!  You wouldn't think things like this would be
so hard to achieve, but at least it gives us something to
celebrate, 'eh?

 

[HairGirl]

Lauren, that's wonderful! I'm so glad you got the new model! I want one really bad, so if you could sometime let us know what you had to do and what you put in the medical necessity letter I would really appreciate it. Thanks<img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0">

 

[bmombtoo]

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[julie]

That's great Lauren, I'm so happy to hear that. I was wondering how you were progressing with that but didn't want to ask in case you were still in middle of fighting it out with them.

GO GIRL!!!!!!!!

 

[debs2girls]

Congrats to you.....we are currently fighting dd's insurance to go ahead and pay for the one she has had since April...hopefully they will.