How to Replace Your CPAP in Only 666 Days
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#2This made me furious. I would have given up long ago, which of course is what anthem wants. Congrats to the author for sticking with it.
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#3This feels like every health insurance endeavor I have ever attempted.
In any other industry, this would be called "fraud."
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#4Congrats on triggering my chronic anxiety.
I dread the day I require anything complicated that requires medical/insurance bureocracy in this country. I've had already ungodly share of issues with Aetna because they capitalized my surname.
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#5Another avenue of escalation is also via your state congressional rep / federal congressional rep. Their offices should always have a constituent services function whose very purpose is to help their constituents navigate these bureaucratic mazes.
(Disclaimer: I’ve never had to exercise this personally.)
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#6'don't buy anthem products, period, for any reason"
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#7Ha, I know Carelon! It's their pharmacy division for specialty (read: expensive) medication. Not a clue as to why they'd be involved in a CPAP claim, but this story does ring far too close to home.
I once spent months fighting United Healthcare to stop hounding me for a $2k bill that I categorically did not owe. Countless phone reps were unable to remove it from my account; I only solved the problem by making a big enough stink on Twitter for someone from corporate to get involved. Good times!
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#8Congrats on triggering my chronic anxiety. I dread the day I require anything complicated that requires medical/insurance bureocracy in this country. I've had already ungodly share of issues with Aetna because they capitalized my surname.
I had my first serious medical procedure a year and a half ago, which required a rare specialist. My insurance, Anthem Blue Cross, covered everything, and called and mailed me ahead of time confirming my hospital stay at UCSF was approved and in network. So, YMMV.
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#9'don't buy anthem products, period, for any reason"
What's crazy is that Anthem is genuinely one of the least-bad insurance giants in America right now. The bar is incredibly fucking low.
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#10It’s surprising to me that not only in my home country is the process of having a CPAP machine covered by insurance a long and complicated one.
In my case, it took almost 12 months to receive my first CPAP machine, which then turned out to be refurbished. Initially, I had to visit a doctor, who had an available appointment in two months. He then referred me to a sleep laboratory (another two-month wait). After my sleep study, they sent me back to the doctor, who confirmed I had sleep apnea and said I needed to return to the sleep lab to test some settings—a further two months’ wait.
Then, after more than a month waiting for the next appointment, the doctor informed me that the settings they had tried were too low and wanted to send me back to the lab. I disagreed, but he gave me the prescription, and two months later, I received a CPAP machine with incorrect settings that didn’t help much.
Eventually, I purchased my own Philips Dreamstation Go because it automatically adjusts the pressure, and I’ve been sleeping well ever since.