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Re: Getting HOSED by my health plan - anyone else?
When we looked at an Advantage plan for Dale, it looked like it would convert Medicare into a really bad private insurance. We were told to look for a supplement plan instead. I have my insurance through the state (administered through Blue Cross) and it is a constant argument to get prescription filled. The other day I received a notice from them that they weren't going to pay for my last PET scan (about 5300 dollars) because they deemed it medically unnecessary. I will have to appeal them and fight for it. I am not sick at this point but I have been and I wonder why I wanted insurance so much when they are one of the biggest sources of stress in my life.
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In the world of destiny, there are no statistics.
Jan. 26- mammogram and ultrasound- suspicious lump
Mid-February- lumpectomy, infiltrating ductal carcinoma ~4.5 cm and a 1 cm DCIS, did not get clear margins, did not check lymph nodes
ER+/PR+, her2 +++, nuclear grade 3 of 3
February 20-PET scan showed something on liver. No biopsy.
March- Started carboplatin, herceptin, taxol on a four week cycle
May 3- Pet scan, with intent to do a biopsy, found nothing, liver or breast- no biopsy because there is nothing to biopsy
June 21- new onc, very concerned that there had been no biopsy,
June 18th-CAT scan, bone scan-negative
August 7th - Brain MRI-negative
August 9th- mastectomy, all pathology negative
January 2008 still NED! New oncologist -herceptin for full year after chemo- until July, and tamoxifen---negative scans since May '07
July 2008-Finished Herceptin!
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