Re: Insurance Appeal

From: Helen Chalmers (hchalm@aol.com)
Mon Oct 16 22:17:49 2000


Dear Bev:

Thank you. I knew you'd come through. Your letter about why you choose them in the first place, the money issue, was the best letter ever. If you still have that one, pass it on to me and I'll read the whole darn letter to them if I have to.

Love,

Helen C.

At Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Bernie and Beverly Doucette wrote: >
>Helen...
>
>I think I know someone who is doing an appeal right now..and I have some
>letters from one I helped with earlier this year..I'll get that together and
>get it to you tomorow, okay Helen...
>
>Bev

>>----- Original Message -----
>From: Helen Chalmers <hchalm@aol.com>
>To: Multiple recipients of list ADHESIONS <adhesions@mail.medispecialty.com>
>Sent: Saturday, October 14, 2000 8:25 PM
>Subject: Re: Insurance Appeal
>
>> Not to scare anyone away from Drs. Reich and Redan but my insurance
>> company only kicked in about $10,000 of the $25,000 bill from the famous
>> doctors. Although the doctors have written that they will not bill us
>> any additional monies we will not be getting any of the $4,000 back that
>> we prepaid to them.
>>
>> We do plan to appeal, but will need some help from others that have had
>> the surgery and perhaps your insurance carrier paid more then ours. If
>> you would like to share that information with me it would be of great
>> help. Our insurance agent said he wanted to see if perhaps they are on
>> the low end of insurance carriers, although we have Blue Cross and Blue
>> Shield. He went to battle to get as much money as we got from them.
>>
>> I also thought perhaps those of you that have had previous surgeries
>> with doctors that were not as experienced as these, have had to have
>> additional surgeries, and are still suffering,need more surgery, could
>> contribute this information.
>>
>> One cannot put a dollar sign on one's health, therefore, please don't
>> let this information persuade you not to have surgery with these
>> doctors.
>>
>> Any information or advice would certainly be appreciated.
>>
>> Thank you,
>>
>> --
>> Helen Chalmers
>>

--
Helen Chalmers

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