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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
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There is a link to the Spine Journal in the FAQ`s your reading is limited tho` because that is free
Best Alastair
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ADR Munich 26th July 2002 L5/S1. Aged 82 now Your best asset is your health My story is here http://www.adrsupport.org/alastair.html Thank goodness for Dr Zeegers I am painfree I am here to help,I live in the UK I now run the UK spine site and can be contacted at www.adrsupportuk.com/ |
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Cathy,
I dunno what Alastair is talking about -- but if you can't find what you need, let me know.
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"Harrison" - info (at) adrsupport.org Fell on my ***winter 2003, Canceled fusion April 6 2004 Reborn June 25th, 2004, L5-S1 ADR Charite in Boston Founder & moderator of ADRSupport - 2004 Founder Arthroplasty Patient Foundation a 501(c)(3) - 2006 Creator & producer, Why Am I Still Sick? - 2012 Donate www.arthropatient.org/about/donate |
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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 |
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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
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
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ADR Munich 26th July 2002 L5/S1. Aged 82 now Your best asset is your health My story is here http://www.adrsupport.org/alastair.html Thank goodness for Dr Zeegers I am painfree I am here to help,I live in the UK I now run the UK spine site and can be contacted at www.adrsupportuk.com/ |
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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
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Kim Herniated disc L5/S1 2000 Discectomy 10/2003 Rhizotomy 8/2004 and 3/2005Discogram 11/04 grade 7 tear L5/S1 L4/L5 Grade 5 tear with herniation and stenosis Evaluated by Dr Blumenthal at TBI 2/2005 ADR 2 level recommended 2 level lumbar fusion |
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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.
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DDD for 15 years. ADR candidate L4-L5, L5-S1 UHC insurance |
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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...
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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.
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DDD for 15 years. ADR candidate L4-L5, L5-S1 UHC insurance |
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