i'll try and dig up my contact person at DMHC but anyone at DMHC should be able to help you. since they are a gov't agency they also disclose all of their cases and decisions online. see http://wp.dmhc.ca.gov/imr/results.asp?id=6468&optFormat...ails=artificial+di sc
if this link doesn't work i can PM it to you. i think it's interesting to see what they are upholding and what they are overturning.
re a contact w/my insurance co, United assigned me a nurse case manager whom believed in my case but ultimately my surgery was never authorized. perhaps you could request that a case manager be assigned to you as well.
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scoliosis; 1998 snowboarding injury->DDD L3-S1 w/annular tears/protrusions; 2007 episodes of rt foot drop
2007 Prodisc ADR L4-S1
L4-5 Prodisc tilted/facet issues; old L5 nerve damage
2009 L4-5 Prodisc ADR removed and revised to XLIF w/posterior instrumentation
massive hemorrhage from tear of inferior vena cava at right iliac vein due to adhesion from Prodisc op
2010 not fused; as a result of complications permanent nerve damage to lumbar plexus causing severe rt leg, hip, groin pain
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