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Old 06-13-2006, 11:50 AM
Randy Morris Randy Morris is offline
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I agree completely tricia. I would look at it as if I am the insurance company trying to find reasons to defend the denials. The more that the FDA requirements are meet by the patients, the less they will have to defend their reasoning for denial. and thus, like you said, more attention will be on the fact that their denials are unjust.
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Old 06-16-2006, 07:57 PM
Dale S Dale S is offline
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We're missing the boat on this one. Ins. co deny coverage because to date, no study has been done showing superior results, only equivelancy, to fusion, as required for FDA approval. We can shout from the rooftops but until 'something' demonstrates any improvement over fusion... and until the price of the implants themselves are reduced by the equally greedy distributors, ins co's are choosing the lesser of two evils, and an equivilant procedure.

As I've said before, a study needs to be done to prove superiority of adr's over fusion. I've also heard that ins co don't like to cover anything for the first 5 years????

So include the manufacturers in your letter writing campaign to conduct such a study.

Good luck to all, Dale
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Old 06-16-2006, 08:24 PM
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Good point Dale.

The Europeans didn't do us any favors as they conducted retrospectives, IMO, w/limited variables in meta-studies.

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