Hello All, I'm working on my third appeal. I read the post with the article "When F.D.A. Says Yes, but Insurers Say No" in the article it says �Johnson is hoping to gain more support after the publication on July 15 of two articles on the F.D.A. trial data in Spine, a peer-reviewed medical journal.�We expect that will lead to a new round of policy reviews," said John Argiro, director of reimbursement for DePuy Spine, the Johnson subsidiary that makes the disk�. Now here is my question does anyone get the Spine Journal or have access to the entire articles, not just the abstract?? I need to include the new information in my appeal. If anyone has any thing that I could use for my third appeal, I would appreciate it very much. If anyone would like I can email a copy of my last denial letter. This is the last appeal for me. So the most current data I can give them the better. Thanks everyone in advance for everything!! Cathy

There is a link to the Spine Journal in the FAQ`s your reading is limited tho` because that is free

Best
Alastair http://adrsupport.org/groupee_common...icon_smile.gif

Cathy,

I dunno what Alastair is talking about -- but if you can't find what you need, let me know.

Most journals will let you order a single article for $20 or $30 from the publisher

Pub med runs a service to order articles that's usually a bit cheaper for people who don't have access to journals. Often local public medical libraries participate, see one libary's page about this

mountzion.ucsfmedicalcenter.org/library/loandoc.html

Even cheaper is find a medical library open to the public and just xerox it yourself

list of medical libraries open to the public

www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/libraries.html

From the FAQ -- -- -- we're running into page 2 now Harrison so maybe this is why you didn't see this. You can tell why I get lonely down there can't you -- -- -- I get so few visitors -- -- -- lol http://adrsupport.org/groupee_common...icon_smile.gif

Can I read the spine journal?

Yes you can, you cannot get into the depths of it but as a non subscribed person you can view most of the summaries here -- -- -- have a good look round.You can only read the abstracts though.
The European Spine Journal is here

http://springerlink.metapress.com/ap...e4wlckxm994ua0


Ordinary Spine Journal here
http://www.spinejournal.com/pt/re/spine/home.htm;jse ssionid=Atm9rvTjkbqZFjwz61ky0MTWFIkUQ2xspF5mH1QLWl Oi8AkLTUmm!177270569

I am in the appeals process too and if I get denied again as I am afraid that I will, I would like to get copies of these also in order to file my last appeal. If anyone gets these, would you share????????? Thanks in advance

I am in a hurry to get info for my second appeal, and the appeal person said we needed to submit only new information. I will go to a medical librry in a nearby town.
I will certainly help you if I can.

Cathy,

Click here and scroll down to my post dated 7/17/05--I posted links to two new Spine Journal abstracts that were published on 7/15/05.

I hope this helps,

Justin

Has anybody read the editorials in the July Spine entitled "Editorial Response to Parts 1 and 2 of the FDA IDE Study of Lumbar Total Disc Replacement With the Charite[TM] Artificial Disc Vs. Lumbar Fusion"? Was curious as to whether they were positive or negative with regards to ADR...

I went to the medical library today and got a copy of the two articles I think we need. At least I hope they are the right ones. You can get a copy of one by sending a request to sblumenthal@texasback.com and the other one at Mack8132@aol.com. The librarians were unable
to get the editorials, so if they are positive, please let me know. Also do you have any good articles to use? I am trying to get things together for my appeal as soon as possible. I copied a couple of other articles, but I'm not sure if they are good to use or not.
That's it for now.