Re: Ohio Medicaid reimbursement

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& Judith, Please could you share the documentation & diagnosis codes with

me as well? We live in Georgia and my 25 yr old son had a severe brain injury

over 2 yrs ago. We have done 80 HBOT treatments in Florida with us paying for

it. I want to continue in Georgia and make use of Medicaid reimbursement if

possible. I do not know the proper channels to follow. I have tried talking to

Medicaid about it in the last month, but only got very vague answers. My fax is

706-494-4166. Thanks.

Marguerite McKinney

311 shagbark trail

fortson, Ga 31808

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Can you tell me what kind of results you have seen with your son since

beginning with hbot? Thank you.

>From: " Marguerite " <mmmckinney1@...>

>Reply-medicaid

>medicaid

>Subject: Re: [ ] Ohio Medicaid reimbursement

>Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2006 00:08:05 GMT

>

> & Judith, Please could you share the documentation & diagnosis codes

>with me as well? We live in Georgia and my 25 yr old son had a severe

>brain injury over 2 yrs ago. We have done 80 HBOT treatments in Florida

>with us paying for it. I want to continue in Georgia and make use of

>Medicaid reimbursement if possible. I do not know the proper channels to

>follow. I have tried talking to Medicaid about it in the last month, but

>only got very vague answers. My fax is 706-494-4166. Thanks.

>

>

>Marguerite McKinney

>311 shagbark trail

>fortson, Ga 31808

>

>

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HBOT ICD-9 codes vary accoridng to the client's diagnosis, but we have used

the following codes

345.01 seizure

348.1 anoxia, hypoxic, cerebral

767.8 encephalopathy due to birth injury

780.0 coma

277.87 mitochondrial

277.8 other specified mitochondrial disorder

348.3 encephalopathy

HBOT CPT 99183

specific codes can be downloaded from a search engine off of the

internet....

Google...then type in what you want...such as the condition+ICD-9 code or

your condition+ICD-9 code

>From: " LEANNE ANTAYA " <leanneantaya@...>

>Reply-medicaid

>medicaid

>Subject: Re: [ ] Ohio Medicaid reimbursement

>Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2006 19:31:21 -0700

>

>Can you tell me what kind of results you have seen with your son since

>beginning with hbot? Thank you.

>

>

> >From: " Marguerite " <mmmckinney1@...>

> >Reply-medicaid

> >medicaid

> >Subject: Re: [ ] Ohio Medicaid reimbursement

> >Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2006 00:08:05 GMT

> >

> > & Judith, Please could you share the documentation & diagnosis

>codes

> >with me as well? We live in Georgia and my 25 yr old son had a severe

> >brain injury over 2 yrs ago. We have done 80 HBOT treatments in Florida

> >with us paying for it. I want to continue in Georgia and make use of

> >Medicaid reimbursement if possible. I do not know the proper channels to

> >follow. I have tried talking to Medicaid about it in the last month, but

> >only got very vague answers. My fax is 706-494-4166. Thanks.

> >

> >

> >Marguerite McKinney

> >311 shagbark trail

> >fortson, Ga 31808

> >

> >

> >

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Marguerite:

Continue the treatments if at all possible. My

husband had a brain tumor, 9 brainsuregeries,

meningitis, was in a coma for 7 weeks, ICU 16 weeks

and had a stroke due to a fall which required 2 more

surgeries...the doctors never gave me much hope, but

HBOT astonished everyone and he progressed to a

functioning adult..brain injury does damage and

complete recovery is not usually the case, but HBOT

can help him to get as much back as possible...its

nurishing the brain and helping to get the neurons

firing strongly again, opens up passages, my husband

did probably 300 treatments in all and I would be

doing them today expect for the money. the gov't

doesn't recognize it as a treatment and neither does

traditional insurance as far as I know. Do you have a

church family you could call on, could you do a

community fund raiser? I hope you can continue the

treatments. Tyne

--- LEANNE ANTAYA <leanneantaya@...> wrote:

> Can you tell me what kind of results you have seen

> with your son since

> beginning with hbot? Thank you.

>

>

> >From: " Marguerite " <mmmckinney1@...>

> >Reply-medicaid

> >medicaid

> >Subject: Re: [ ] Ohio Medicaid

> reimbursement

> >Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2006 00:08:05 GMT

> >

> > & Judith, Please could you share the

> documentation & diagnosis codes

> >with me as well? We live in Georgia and my 25 yr

> old son had a severe

> >brain injury over 2 yrs ago. We have done 80 HBOT

> treatments in Florida

> >with us paying for it. I want to continue in

> Georgia and make use of

> >Medicaid reimbursement if possible. I do not know

> the proper channels to

> >follow. I have tried talking to Medicaid about it

> in the last month, but

> >only got very vague answers. My fax is

> 706-494-4166. Thanks.

> >

> >

> >Marguerite McKinney

> >311 shagbark trail

> >fortson, Ga 31808

> >

> >

> >

>

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Leanne, We have seen significant improvements in cognitive areas such as verbal

skills & language. His increased tone has been helped somewhat. We were hoping

to help his right visual field cut and his slow processing, but haven't seen

much improvement yet in those areas yet. He has had 80 sessions. We want to go

for 40 more in a few months.

Marguerite

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Tyne, Yes..we want to continue the HBOT if at all possible. We have had one

fund raiser so far and am relying on a long time family friend to have another

fund raiser in a few weeks. Our church family has helped us also. My husband &

I both work and it is hard to get the time away from work to travel to Florida

for a month for each set of 40 treatments.. That is why I would like to be able

to do this closer to home plus take advantage of the Medicaid reimbursement if

possible. There is a hospital right in our town that does HBOT for wounds, but

not neurological reasons. I might be able to convince them to do neurological

if I could afford them...each treatment is $1600.00 whereas the treatments in

Florida are $125.00 each

Marguerite

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>Tyne, Yes..we want to continue the HBOT if at all possible. We

have had one fund raiser so far and am relying on a long time family

friend to have another fund raiser in a few weeks. Our church family

has helped us also. My husband & I both work and it is hard to get

the time away from work to travel to Florida for a month for each set

of 40 treatments.. That is why I would like to be able to do this

closer to home plus take advantage of the Medicaid reimbursement if

possible. There is a hospital right in our town that does HBOT for

wounds, but not neurological reasons. I might be able to convince

them to do neurological if I could afford them...each treatment is

$1600.00 whereas the treatments in Florida are $125.00 each

>

>

>Marguerite

Marguerite,

Where in Georgia do you live?

Is your son a Medicaid recipient?

Do you have documentation of the $1600/treatment price tag?

Has this hospital sent you a letter stating they will not treat your

son with HBOT because he has a brain-injury?

Can you fax me a copy of this documentation?

My fax # is 815-366-7962.

Freels

2948 Windfield Circle

Tucker, GA 30084-6714

770-491-6776 (phone)

404-725-4520 (cell)

815-366-7962 (fax)

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http://www.freelanceforum.org/df

[Guest guest]

,

We live in Fortson, Ga (Columbus). Yes, Shane is a 25 yr old TBI Medicaid

recipient. No I have no documentation...just verbal conversations with both

the facility and Medicaid. This all took place last spring...probably March or

April..I am wanting to try again with them since Mediciad has approved HBOT for

brain injury because of your efforts in Aug. But I want to have all my ducks in

a row with proper documentation...this is where I need help, to make sure I do

everything correctly.In the meantime we took Shane to Destin/Ft Walton, Fla for

his 80 treatments at a clinic run by Dr Zant in May-Aug. How do I get them to

put this all in writing? I really want to be able to have his future treatments

here in Columbus if possible. Thanks,

Marguerite McKinney

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