Re: more about the Stratham implant mapping case

[Guest guest]

What confuses me in regards to all of this is, how do you determine whether

your insurance or your school should pay for mappings? Currently, my

insurance covers mappings after my deductible. My son is in a public

school, but the audiologist there is not competent to do mappings or aural

habilitation, therefore, it comes either out of my pocket or the insurance.

I currently am so disappointed with the educational audiologist. She is

one of those who thinks she knows it all and you cannot tell her a thing.

But, she does no mappings, no aural habilitation, and tests the microlink

only once a month. What if the microlink goes out the day after she checks

it? Does he have to stay that way without anyone knowing? Thank goodness

the teacher there is competent enough to check his equipment and I am

competent to make sure he goes to school with a working CI everyday.

Anyway, I am venting. Thanks for everyone's support here. I would have

worse days without you!!

[Guest guest]

I heard about the outcome of this case on our local news (we live in western New

Hampshire. I believe that the family in question asked that the district pay

just the co-pay for the mappings as their insurance covered the mappings. They

weren't asking for the full cost of the map.

Barbara

--- You wrote:

What confuses me in regards to all of this is, how do you determine whether

your insurance or your school should pay for mappings? Currently, my

insurance covers mappings after my deductible.

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