Guest guest Posted December 20, 2011 Report Share Posted December 20, 2011 You already had a continuing care with Cleveland clinic. Your doc shd write a letter to your primary care and also to your insurance to get this approval. If your insurance case manager denied this procedure, then your doctor who is doing the surgery should speak or write a letter with documentations  to the director of your insurance. Hope this will help answer your questions. Please do not wait until November you do not need to suffer.  Good Luck. Fe ________________________________ From: devin aeh <devinaeh@...> achalasia Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2011 10:23 AM Subject: Surgery at OSU?  Hi, everyone. I was going through the process of getting ready for surgery at Cleveland Clinic and came to find out my insurance won't pay for it there, only at OSU. This makes me very nervous as I had my heart set on Dr. Rice. My only other option is to wait a year until next November for open enrollment when I can switch providers. Does anyone have any feedback about OSU? I tried searching the forum because I'm sure this question has been answered many times, but I couldn't find anything. I'm not very good at navigating the forum. Please feel free to direct me to anything I have missed. Thanks in advance. Devin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 25, 2011 Report Share Posted December 25, 2011 I've done everything I can to fight the insurance decision, the only way they will pay for the surgery is if I go to OSU. How are the doctors there? > > You already had a continuing care with Cleveland clinic. Your doc shd write a letter to your primary care and also to your insurance to get this approval. If your insurance case manager denied this procedure, then your doctor who is doing the surgery should speak or write a letter with documentations  to the director of your insurance. > Hope this will help answer your questions. Please do not wait until November you do not need to suffer.  Good Luck. > Fe > > > ________________________________ > From: devin aeh <devinaeh@...> > achalasia > Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2011 10:23 AM > Subject: Surgery at OSU? > > > >  > > > Hi, everyone. I was going through the process of getting ready for surgery at Cleveland Clinic and came to find out my insurance won't pay for it there, only at OSU. This makes me very nervous as I had my heart set on Dr. Rice. My only other option is to wait a year until next November for open enrollment when I can switch providers. > > Does anyone have any feedback about OSU? I tried searching the forum because I'm sure this question has been answered many times, but I couldn't find anything. I'm not very good at navigating the forum. Please feel free to direct me to anything I have missed. > > Thanks in advance. > > Devin > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 25, 2011 Report Share Posted December 25, 2011 Devin, bummer. Consider suing them? That sometimes moves 'em off their dimes. .. . . However, OSU does *not* sound like a bad deal: achalasia/message/13029?threaded=1 & p=18 http://medicalcenter.osu.edu/mediaroom/releases/Pages/Awards-and-Annoucements.as\ px Good luck, whatever happens! xox in the Wilds of WV. . . . > > > > You already had a continuing care with Cleveland clinic. Your doc shd write a letter to your primary care and also to your insurance to get this approval. If your insurance case manager denied this procedure, then your doctor who is doing the surgery should speak or write a letter with documentations  to the director of your insurance. > > Hope this will help answer your questions. Please do not wait until November you do not need to suffer.  Good Luck. > > Fe > > > > > > ________________________________ > > From: devin aeh <devinaeh@> > > achalasia > > Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2011 10:23 AM > > Subject: Surgery at OSU? > > > > > > > >  > > > > > > Hi, everyone. I was going through the process of getting ready for surgery at Cleveland Clinic and came to find out my insurance won't pay for it there, only at OSU. This makes me very nervous as I had my heart set on Dr. Rice. My only other option is to wait a year until next November for open enrollment when I can switch providers. > > > > Does anyone have any feedback about OSU? I tried searching the forum because I'm sure this question has been answered many times, but I couldn't find anything. I'm not very good at navigating the forum. Please feel free to direct me to anything I have missed. > > > > Thanks in advance. > > > > Devin > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 26, 2011 Report Share Posted December 26, 2011 Where is OSU? From: devinisvegan <devinaeh@...> Subject: Re: Surgery at OSU? achalasia Date: Sunday, December 25, 2011, 7:44 PM  I've done everything I can to fight the insurance decision, the only way they will pay for the surgery is if I go to OSU. How are the doctors there? > > You already had a continuing care with Cleveland clinic. Your doc shd write a letter to your primary care and also to your insurance to get this approval. If your insurance case manager denied this procedure, then your doctor who is doing the surgery should speak or write a letter with documentations  to the director of your insurance. > Hope this will help answer your questions. Please do not wait until November you do not need to suffer.  Good Luck. > Fe > > > ________________________________ > From: devin aeh <devinaeh@...> > achalasia > Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2011 10:23 AM > Subject: Surgery at OSU? > > > >  > > > Hi, everyone. I was going through the process of getting ready for surgery at Cleveland Clinic and came to find out my insurance won't pay for it there, only at OSU. This makes me very nervous as I had my heart set on Dr. Rice. My only other option is to wait a year until next November for open enrollment when I can switch providers. > > Does anyone have any feedback about OSU? I tried searching the forum because I'm sure this question has been answered many times, but I couldn't find anything. I'm not very good at navigating the forum. Please feel free to direct me to anything I have missed. > > Thanks in advance. > > Devin > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 26, 2011 Report Share Posted December 26, 2011 Mike, OSU is in Columbus, Ohio. About 125 miles from Cleveland. > > > > > > You already had a continuing care with Cleveland clinic. Your doc shd write a letter to your primary care and also to your insurance to get this approval. If your insurance case manager denied this procedure, then your doctor who is doing the surgery should speak or write a letter with documentations  to the director of your insurance. > > > Hope this will help answer your questions. Please do not wait until November you do not need to suffer.  Good Luck. > > > Fe > > > From: devin aeh <devinaeh@> > > > achalasia > > > Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2011 10:23 AM > > > Subject: Surgery at OSU? > > > Hi, everyone. I was going through the process of getting ready for surgery at Cleveland Clinic and came to find out my insurance won't pay for it there, only at OSU. This makes me very nervous as I had my heart set on Dr. Rice. My only other option is to wait a year until next November for open enrollment when I can switch providers. > > > > > > Does anyone have any feedback about OSU? I tried searching the forum because I'm sure this question has been answered many times, but I couldn't find anything. I'm not very good at navigating the forum. Please feel free to direct me to anything I have missed. > > > > > > Thanks in advance. > > > > > > Devin > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 26, 2011 Report Share Posted December 26, 2011 Deven,  I have to take our insurance option at work that is the most expensive to continue going to Froedert in Milwaukee. If I were to change mine with our last open enrollment I would have had to go somewhere else. It is bu$%^ & * they didn't tell you before you changed options.  Kim A ________________________________ From: puddleriver13 <puddleriver13@...> achalasia Sent: Monday, December 26, 2011 12:47 AM Subject: Re: Surgery at OSU?  Devin, bummer. Consider suing them? That sometimes moves 'em off their dimes. .. . . However, OSU does *not* sound like a bad deal: achalasia/message/13029?threaded=1 & p=18 http://medicalcenter.osu.edu/mediaroom/releases/Pages/Awards-and-Annoucements.as\ px Good luck, whatever happens! xox in the Wilds of WV. . . . > > > > You already had a continuing care with Cleveland clinic. Your doc shd write a letter to your primary care and also to your insurance to get this approval. If your insurance case manager denied this procedure, then your doctor who is doing the surgery should speak or write a letter with documentations  to the director of your insurance. > > Hope this will help answer your questions. Please do not wait until November you do not need to suffer.  Good Luck. > > Fe > > > > > > ________________________________ > > From: devin aeh <devinaeh@> > > achalasia > > Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2011 10:23 AM > > Subject: Surgery at OSU? > > > > > > > >  > > > > > > Hi, everyone. I was going through the process of getting ready for surgery at Cleveland Clinic and came to find out my insurance won't pay for it there, only at OSU. This makes me very nervous as I had my heart set on Dr. Rice. My only other option is to wait a year until next November for open enrollment when I can switch providers. > > > > Does anyone have any feedback about OSU? I tried searching the forum because I'm sure this question has been answered many times, but I couldn't find anything. I'm not very good at navigating the forum. Please feel free to direct me to anything I have missed. > > > > Thanks in advance. > > > > Devin > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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