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Health Insurance

Below you will find a list of discussions in the Health Insurance forums at the Spine Patient Society Forums. Help one another navigate the rough waters of insurance issues regarding spine surgery, specifically Artificial Disc Replacement. Discuss Approvals/Denials/Appeals, Workers' Compensation, Social Security Disability and Medicaid & Medicare Coverage.

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  2. Announcement Sticky Thread Sticky: Cervical Artificial Disc Replacement Approval Letter (5/15/09): Blue Cross Blue Shield of TX

    Started by Justin‎, 05-26-2009 08:53 PM
    adr, appeal, approval, artificial, artificial disc, artificial disc replacement, blue, blue cross blue shield, cervical, cervical adr, cervical artificial disc, cervical artificial disc replacement, cross, disc, disc replacement, great, information, ion, letter, member, replacement, shield, spine patient society, sps, texas 1 Attachment(s)
    • Replies: 8
    • Views: 4,622
    dyates
    12-14-2010, 01:20 PM Go to last post

  3. Announcement Sticky Thread Sticky: Insurance Companies APPROVING Artificial Disc Replacement (ADR) Surgery

    Started by Justin‎, 05-04-2009 02:24 PM
    adr, approval, approving, artificial, artificial disc, artificial disc replacement, blue, cervical, cervical adr, companies, cover, cross, disc, disc replacement, forum, insurance, level, lumbar, michigan, replacement, successful, surgery, terry, texas, thread
    • Replies: 8
    • Views: 4,492
    lgabrysch
    12-02-2010, 01:06 PM Go to last post

  4. Announcement Sticky Thread Sticky: State by state Insurance Commissioner contact info

    Started by trkdoc714‎, 09-26-2010 03:48 PM
    act, association, commissioner, contact, info, information, insurance, ion, link, national, state, web
    • Replies: 1
    • Views: 1,075
    rsaylor8326
    10-03-2010, 08:59 AM Go to last post

  5. Announcement Sticky Thread Sticky: The Insurance Warrior, Laurie Todd

    Started by Justin‎, 05-07-2009 01:06 PM
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    adr, appeal, approved, artificial disc, artificial disc replacement, blue, companies, disc replacement, fda, great, heal, health, insurance, laurie, laurie todd, patient, patients, replacement, resource, spine, surgery, todd, warrior, win, years
    • Replies: 14
    • Views: 1,795
    Justin
    06-19-2009, 01:33 PM Go to last post

  6. Announcement Sticky Thread Sticky: Lumbar Spinal Fusion Versus Anterior Lumbar Disc Replacement: The Financial Implications

    Started by Justin‎, 06-16-2009 12:51 AM
    anterior, article, artificial disc, artificial disc replacement, blue, case, companies, disc replacement, education, financial, financial implications, forums, fusion, implications, insurance, ion, link, lumbar, lumbar disc, patients, replacement, spinal fusion, spine, sps, versus
    • Replies: 1
    • Views: 964
    Justin
    06-19-2009, 01:09 PM Go to last post

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  1. Ongoing Fight with Workers Compensation

    Started by Lynda J‎, 05-09-2010 03:57 AM
    age, back, chronic, cost, day, ddd, discogram, facet, forum, heal, health, hospital, joint, l4-l5, management, medication, meds, mri, muscle, pain, pain management, results, syndrome, testing, years
    • Replies: 6
    • Views: 374
    Lynda J
    05-11-2010, 01:06 AM Go to last post

  2. New Member, old problems please help (Trying to get insurance to authorize a cervical disc replacement)

    Started by ahennefer‎, 03-27-2010 12:01 AM
    artificial, artificial disc, artificial disc replacement, cervical, company, cross, disc, disc replacement, hope, insurance, ions, levels, life, member, pain, patients, problems, quality, quality of life, questions, reimbursement, replacement, spine, support, surgery
    • Replies: 6
    • Views: 424
    Katie
    04-05-2010, 02:50 PM Go to last post

  3. Insurance Intelligencer -- The Emperor Has No Clothes

    Started by Justin‎, 03-02-2010 11:48 PM
    appeal, approval, care, chiropractor, companies, doctor, favorite, foundation, heal, health, independent review, insurance, insurance denial, levels, medical, miss, patient, peer review, physicians, policy, policy statements, post, read, sham, surgeon, surgery, texas, treatment, win
    • Replies: 0
    • Views: 498
    Justin
    03-02-2010, 11:48 PM Go to last post

  4. Sick for Profit: Where Do Our Premiums Go? (VIDEO)

    Started by Justin‎, 10-06-2009 04:49 PM
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    black, compassionate, entitled, follow, found, gel, haven, ions, member, mom, month, patient, post, premiums, profit, sick, society, spine, spine patient, spine patient society, thing, video, wife, work, youtube
    • Replies: 14
    • Views: 873
    runagain
    02-24-2010, 02:12 PM Go to last post

  5. Just got bill for fusion surgery

    Started by Jack-of-all-trades‎, 02-19-2010 11:45 PM
    adr, bill, cervical, cervical adr, charged, company, cost, crazy, day, details, doc, doctor, fusion, fusion surgery, give, important, insurance, level, medicine, paying, personal, properties, surgeon, surgery, two level
    • Replies: 2
    • Views: 481
    Dave
    02-20-2010, 10:39 AM Go to last post

  6. Insurance payment limitation

    Started by Jack-of-all-trades‎, 02-03-2010 12:49 AM
    date, follow, found, fusion, fusion surgery, info, insurance, ion, l5-s1, money, music for the band, payment, plan, surgery, today, visit
    • Replies: 0
    • Views: 923
    Jack-of-all-trades
    02-03-2010, 12:49 AM Go to last post

  7. Arrow The Insurance Intelligencer -- Max's Head

    Started by Justin‎, 01-25-2010 06:10 PM
    appeal, approach, back, companies, compassionate, complete, day, grow, head, heal, health, hospital, insurance, intelligencer, laurie, level, max, medical, outcomes, posterior, read, space, surgeon, surgery, time, warrior, work, year
    • Replies: 0
    • Views: 258
    Justin
    01-25-2010, 06:10 PM Go to last post

  8. Wow, didn't cover my Tens Unit.

    Started by Cindylou‎, 01-12-2010 11:07 AM
    call, called, companies, company, cover, finally, heal, health, insurance, letter, months, morning, muscle, note, paying, run, stimulator, sucks, tens, tens unit, unit, wow
    • Replies: 2
    • Views: 544
    runagain
    01-23-2010, 05:13 AM Go to last post

  9. Post C4 to C7 Disc Herniations Denied by BC of California for ProDisc Cervical Artificial Disc Replacement

    Started by bazel01‎, 12-13-2009 03:26 PM
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    age, artificial disc, artificial disc replacement, blue, companies, cross, disc, disc replacement, forum, fusion, heal, health, herniations, information, insurance, member, overseas, pain, patient, patients, replacement, shield, spine, stenum, story, surgery, years
    • Replies: 10
    • Views: 1,227
    jss
    01-03-2010, 01:39 AM Go to last post

  10. The Insurance Intelligencer -- The Biologist and the Plagiarist

    Started by Justin‎, 12-28-2009 08:27 PM
    appeal, area, biologist, chiropractor, companies, doctor, information, institute, insurance, intelligencer, levels, life, lounge, medical, mri, needed, outcome, patients, plagiarist, post, range, relevant, sham, strength, surgery, texas, win, world
    • Replies: 0
    • Views: 347
    Justin
    12-28-2009, 08:27 PM Go to last post

  11. Exclamation Anthem-BCBS // Two-level Lumbar Artificial Disc Replacement Approval // Stenum (Germany) // June 2009 // 100% Patient Reimbursement

    Started by Justin‎, 09-22-2009 04:54 PM
    anthem, anthem or bcbs, anthembcbs, approval, artificial, artificial disc, artificial disc replacement, bcbs, blue, blue cross blue shield, cross, date, disc, disc replacement, germany, hospital, insurance approval, insurance reimbursement, ion, june, level, list, lumbar, patient, patients, payment, reimbursement, replacement, service, shield, spine, status, stenum, successful, surgery, two level, twolevel 1 Attachment(s)
    • Replies: 3
    • Views: 2,346
    Justin
    12-05-2009, 12:48 PM Go to last post

  12. The Insurance Intelligencer -- Alexander's Belly

    Started by Justin‎, 11-28-2009 11:00 AM
    abdomen, alexander, appeal, belly, dynamic, function, great, heal, health, insurance, intelligencer, ion, laurie, laurie todd, life, long, medical, needed, read, study, surgeon, surgery, syndrome, time, todd, treatment, warrior, win
    • Replies: 2
    • Views: 1,034
    Terry Newton
    12-05-2009, 12:33 PM Go to last post

  13. Post a 'simple' insurance question...

    Started by davemmevad‎, 11-21-2009 08:25 PM
    artificial, artificial disc, artificial disc replacement, blue, conditions, conservative, dad, device, disc, disc replacement, forum, heal, health, healthcare, imple, insurance, ions, made, message, post, private, question, reimbursement, related, replacement, society, stenum, treatment
    • Replies: 1
    • Views: 330
    Justin
    11-24-2009, 08:46 PM Go to last post

  14. Might be losing my health insurance....

    Started by KBear‎, 11-04-2009 04:21 PM
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    access, blue, companies, email, expensive, found, good, hardware, health, home, hope, information, insurance, interface, internet, ion, list, losing, mobile, received, reform, review, reviews, send, service, top, work
    • Replies: 19
    • Views: 842
    Justin
    11-16-2009, 08:29 PM Go to last post

  15. Are the Insurance Companies Really to Blame?

    Started by Katie‎, 11-08-2009 01:50 AM
    artificial disc, artificial disc replacement, blame, companies, cost, disc replacement, heal, insurance, internet, ion, medicine, money, patients, physicians, private, questions, replacement, service, spine, spine surgery, surgeon, surgery, time, total, visit, world
    • Replies: 9
    • Views: 789
    Terry Newton
    11-13-2009, 01:29 AM Go to last post
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