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Old Tue Jun 26, 2007, 04:53 AM
Lisa V Lisa V is offline
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Rose, I'm so sorry you've had this experience! It's hard enough psyching yourself up for a BMT without having to deal with whether or not some insurance company thinks you should have it or not. This should be a decision between you and the medical team. It makes me so angry that money should even enter into it, but of course it does.

We are Kaiser members and recently had to jump through all kinds of hoops in order to just get HLA testing done on my husband's siblings. We have no plans for a BMT at this time, but they wouldn't even approve the testing until we could show them we had a financial plan in place to deal with the expenses of a transplant if we did ever need to do it. The social worker said "We just want to be sure this isn't going to bankrupt you", to which I asked "But what if it does?" I couldn't get a straight answer to that one, but the bottom line is that if they don't think they can collect, they won't do it. There's something very wrong with this picture.
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-Lisa, husband Ken age 60 dx SAA 7/04, dx hypo MDS 1/06 w/finding of trisomy 8; 2 ATGs, partial remission, still using cyclosporine
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