Re: Good News about United Healthcare

[Guest guest]

Great news Bernadette!!! Thanks for sharing it with us. UHC, never

a dull moment with them. lol

Dustie

--- In Plagiocephaly , " billberna " <billberna@j...>

wrote:

> Hopefully this message will be encouraging to some of you. We got

our

> statement from UHC this weekend. I hated to open it, thinking

about the bad

> news it would probably contain. To my amazement, they paid 90%

without a

> hitch! This is for a STARband, for which they had a negotiated

amount of

> $1500. Our orthotist is in network, and we have the PPO. Our

orthotist

> office did mention to me that the PPO pays up much more often than

the HMO;

> something to think about if you are undecided which plan to sign up

for in

> the future. This was a great early Christmas present for us,

because we

> were expecting to have to fight this. has been doing

really great

> in her helmet, too. She has been wearing it for a little over a

month, and

> I do think we see a little improvement (she hasn't had any big

growth spurts

> recently). We think our orthotist is pretty good, and very

experienced. He

> said he has done about 500 STARbands.

>

> Bernadette and , in Orlando