Questions for USA citizens w/ medicaid/health insurance

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I'm a USA citizen

1. Should you have some kind of health insurance before doing LL so that afterwards the health insurance can help w/ injuries/complications after LL is over?

2. For what kind of things did Medicaid / would medicaid help you in this case?

3. If you were to get private health insurance before LL w/ the hope that the insurance would cover some bad things that happen after LL, what kind of private health insurance would you get in USA?

I vaguely remember one doctor saying that sometimes he could get health insurance to help w/ nail removal in some way

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1. Yes, but you should have health insurance regardless.

2. Probably just the basic essentials.

3. Kaiser Permanente covered my fasciotomy 100%.

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Quote from: SpeedDialer on August 28, 2021, 07:11:46 PMI'm a USA citizen

1. Should you have some kind of health insurance before doing LL so that afterwards the health insurance can help w/ injuries/complications after LL is over?

2. For what kind of things did Medicaid / would medicaid help you in this case?

3. If you were to get private health insurance before LL w/ the hope that the insurance would cover some bad things that happen after LL, what kind of private health insurance would you get in USA?

I vaguely remember one doctor saying that sometimes he could get health insurance to help w/ nail removal in some way

Medical isn’t supposed to cover cosmetic surgery at all, even complications. But blue cross blue shield covered majority of my physio cost and was going to cover my fixator removal

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Insurance covers medically necessary fixes to complications.  For example, if a woman has a problem with a breast implant being infected, the insurance company will pay to have it extracted and for infection-control but not for a new implant.

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ty!!! Curious, what do LL patients need a fasciotomy  to accomplish? Ex: to cover some problem that occurs years after LL?

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Quote from: Medium Drink Of Water on August 28, 2021, 11:13:55 PMInsurance covers medically necessary fixes to complications.  For example, if a woman has a problem with a breast implant being infected, the insurance company will pay to have it extracted and for infection-control but not for a new implant.

Paley's website states that any complication from CLL is not covered by insurance: https://paleyinstitute.org/centers-of-excellence/stature-lengthening/costs-financial-considerations/#/

It would depend on what the doctor treating the complication writes. If he mentions the CLL history, insurance might refuse to cover the expenses.

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Agree with everyone here. From my experience, insurance only covers physio and prescription medicine. There're some insurances that may cover removal.

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Quote from: SirStretchAlot on September 05, 2021, 09:55:33 AMAgree with everyone here. From my experience, insurance only covers physio and prescription medicine. There're some insurances that may cover removal.

Medium Drink of Water and I are saying different things. Who do you agree with?

Did you get a complication that you tried using insurance to cover?

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Paley means he can't get insurance to pay him to fix your complications while you're under his care.

Quote from: SpeedDialer on September 05, 2021, 06:58:19 AMty!!! Curious, what do LL patients need a fasciotomy  to accomplish? Ex: to cover some problem that occurs years after LL?

I got exertional compartment syndrome in my tibialis anterior muscles whenever I walked, due to the change in biomechanics caused by LL.  A fasciotomy is a slit in the muscle that allows blood to be released.

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Quote from: Medium Drink Of Water on September 05, 2021, 01:27:12 PMPaley means he can't get insurance to pay him to fix your complications while you're under his care.

He doesn't want to, or he can't? If he can't, then the implication is that insurance providers don't oblige, right?

Dr M says complications are covered by insurance. I am thinking insurance providers tend to not oblige if there is a mention of prior cosmetic work. So Dr M is okay with hiding that, and Paley isn't. Do you agree with my assessment?