Chasswen,
I have BCBS Federal Employees insurance. Are you telling me that if a device, the Prestige artificial disc, is FDA approved, however, still considered investigatioal, they cannot deny me the surgery? I heard there was such a federal mandate and passed it along to my doctor to help fight BCBS. I need two disc replaced in my neck, so we asked for a fusion and a Prestige and were told no, only fusion. I have been excepted into the Wallis Clinical Trial Study for a disc needing replacement in my lower back, so at least no insurance hassles there.
---KatieJane---