Re: questions about neurospect scans

[Guest guest]

Hi Shona,

We have United Healthcare also and had a neurospect done last year at Santa

. According to the plan we have, they paid 90% of the " amount allowed, "

so we wound up paying about $175 in the end. My son also was put under for the

procedure.

You just call the nuclear medicine dept. & make the appt.--Dr. G's office can

give you the number. Tell them when scheduling that you will be seeing Dr. G on

whatever date you have scheduled and request that the neurospect be scheduled at

a time--probably at least 1 day before the appt.--so that you can have the

results at the Dr. G appt. Ask the person you make the appt. with if you can

get an idea of what it will run. They will probably ask you when you schedule

the appt. if your child will need to be sedated or put under.

HTH,

Heidi

questions about neurospect scans

Hi all! Dr. Goldberg has asked us to have a neurospect scan done on

at least one of the kids while we're in CA in March. The two places

the office gave us to have these done are Harbor and Santa .

This may be an ignorant question....but here goes. Is the actual

name of the place UCLA Harbor or is it just Harbor? Our insurance

didn't have a Harbor Hospital listed in their network. For those of

you who have had this done, which place is the best? Our insurance

company, United Healthcare, said that they would cover 100%

of " reasonable " charges. How in the world do I know what is

reasonable and what's not? Will they give you a price quote when you

call to set it up? How difficult is it to get these set up? It'll

have to be a sedated scan as neither of my children could be still

for that length of time. Help, PLEASE!!!! I'd like to get all of

this set up during the next week. Thanks! Shona

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[Guest guest]

Shona,

Ben had a neurospect at UCLA Santa and had anesthesia for it.

Try to schedule for as early in the day as possible (the child cannot

eat or drink for 6-7 hours before the anesthesia) and be prepared to

stay in recovery for several hours. That day is totally shot. The

anesthesia they use is very safe (much more safe than the stuff used

for the ear tubes even) but it takes a long while for the child

to " wake up. " The anesthesiologist explained to me that he can be

very accurate with this new type of IV anesthesia and when he stops

administering it is out of the system almost instantaneously. But a

side effect is that it makes the child very sleepy. Seems like we

waited about 3 hours for Ben to wake up (and the procedure only took

about 45 minutes).

You'll also need a written " ok " from the child's pediatrician saying

that s/he is healthy enough to have the anesthesia. I think the

administering Dr.'s (Dr. Uszler in our case) office has a form for

this. Be sure and have everything pinned down ahead of time. In our

case, Uszler's office was kind of lax in making sure we knew

everything to do ahead of time (signed form from ped, no food or

water 6 hours before). Luckily, Heidi helped walk us through it -

even mailed me a map. (Thanks again, Heidi!!!)

timary

--- In , " Heidi Kaufmann " <HeidiKaufmann908@m...>

wrote:

> Hi Shona,

>

> We have United Healthcare also and had a neurospect done last year

at Santa . According to the plan we have, they paid 90% of

the " amount allowed, " so we wound up paying about $175 in the end.

My son also was put under for the procedure.

>

> You just call the nuclear medicine dept. & make the appt.--Dr. G's

office can give you the number. Tell them when scheduling that you

will be seeing Dr. G on whatever date you have scheduled and request

that the neurospect be scheduled at a time--probably at least 1 day

before the appt.--so that you can have the results at the Dr. G

appt. Ask the person you make the appt. with if you can get an idea

of what it will run. They will probably ask you when you schedule

the appt. if your child will need to be sedated or put under.

>

> HTH,

>

> Heidi

>

> questions about neurospect scans

>

> Hi all! Dr. Goldberg has asked us to have a neurospect scan done

on

> at least one of the kids while we're in CA in March. The two

places

> the office gave us to have these done are Harbor and Santa

.

> This may be an ignorant question....but here goes. Is the actual

> name of the place UCLA Harbor or is it just Harbor? Our insurance

> didn't have a Harbor Hospital listed in their network. For those

of

> you who have had this done, which place is the best? Our

insurance

> company, United Healthcare, said that they would cover 100%

> of " reasonable " charges. How in the world do I know what is

> reasonable and what's not? Will they give you a price quote when

you

> call to set it up? How difficult is it to get these set up?

It'll

> have to be a sedated scan as neither of my children could be still

> for that length of time. Help, PLEASE!!!! I'd like to get all of

> this set up during the next week. Thanks! Shona

>

>

>

>

> Responsibility for the content of this message lies strictly with

> the original author(s), and is not necessarily endorsed by or the

> opinion of the Research Institute.

[Guest guest]

He ordered it on Chaia because although she's made progress, she's just not

where we want her to be right now. She's had a lot of trouble the past few

months and hasn't made much progress. He's hoping that the neurospect will give

him a better idea of what direction to take with her next. I'm waiting on his

office to contact me to let me know if he wants one on Skyler or not. Shona

>

> From: <thecolemans4@...>

> Date: 2004/02/14 Sat PM 06:42:03 EST

>

> Subject: Re: questions about neurospect scans

>

>

[Guest guest]

Hi Shona,

The name is Harbor UCLA Hospital.

Re: questions about neurospect scans

ey Shona -

I was just wondering why Dr G ordered it?

--- Shona Jordan <chaia98@...> wrote:

> Hi all! Dr. Goldberg has asked us to have a

> neurospect scan done on

> at least one of the kids while we're in CA in March.

> The two places

> the office gave us to have these done are Harbor and

> Santa .

> This may be an ignorant question....but here goes.

> Is the actual

> name of the place UCLA Harbor or is it just Harbor? >>>>>

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