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Title: Well, some personal good news for me, My insurance will cover GRS
Post by: stephaniec on April 27, 2015, 08:17:42 PM
Well , good personal news for me.  The doctors office of the surgeon that I'm thinking about just emailed me and said I can use Medicare and a Medicare supplemental insurance  I just got today to pay for the operation if I decide to go ahead. Yippi
Title: Re: Well, some personal good news for me, My insurance will cover GRS
Post by: Mariah on April 27, 2015, 08:22:31 PM
That's terrific news Stephanie. Hopefully this opens the door for many others on here that are on medicare too. Congrats. Good luck and Hugs
Mariah
Title: Re: Well, some personal good news for me, My insurance will cover GRS
Post by: Ms Grace on April 27, 2015, 08:24:42 PM
That's great - last I'd heard you were pretty sure it didn't.
Title: Re: Well, some personal good news for me, My insurance will cover GRS
Post by: iKate on April 27, 2015, 08:28:50 PM
That's awesome, Stephanie!
Title: Re: Well, some personal good news for me, My insurance will cover GRS
Post by: stephaniec on April 27, 2015, 08:35:08 PM
Quote from: Ms Grace on April 27, 2015, 08:24:42 PM
That's great - last I'd heard you were pretty sure it didn't.
well, they told me that Medicare would take care of 80% , but they would do it with out a supplemental because they couldn't estimate all the other costs that could happen such as the hospital fees, The surgeon they knew the 80% , but not all the others. I didn't think I could afford the supplemental , but its not bad.
Title: Re: Well, some personal good news for me, My insurance will cover GRS
Post by: stephaniec on April 27, 2015, 08:36:58 PM
Quote from: Mariah2014 on April 27, 2015, 08:22:31 PM
That's terrific news Stephanie. Hopefully this opens the door for many others on here that are on medicare too. Congrats. Good luck and Hugs
Mariah
yea, the Medicare is like the other insurance companies with the 80-20. It will definitely help others.
Title: Re: Well, some personal good news for me, My insurance will cover GRS
Post by: Mariah on April 27, 2015, 08:44:56 PM
Indeed, they are. I had a feeling that was the case because I have a relative who is on Medicare with supplemental and all of sudden was referred to a particular surgeon for SRS that that they are aligned with. She has been stuck like so many here because no one excepted it before.
Mariah
Quote from: stephaniec on April 27, 2015, 08:36:58 PM
yea, the Medicare is like the other insurance companies with the 80-20. It will definitely help others.
Title: Re: Well, some personal good news for me, My insurance will cover GRS
Post by: Tysilio on April 27, 2015, 09:15:01 PM
Stephanie, that is great news for all of us!

Oh, and... congratulations! (https://www.susans.org/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fthefiringline.com%2Fforums%2Fimages%2Fsmilies%2Fsmile.gif&hash=2c5a4907e2673dfa63557696254abe82f5c9641e)
Title: Re: Well, some personal good news for me, My insurance will cover GRS
Post by: Sabrina on April 27, 2015, 09:27:20 PM
Great news! I'm sure everything will go well.
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Post by: Damara on April 27, 2015, 10:30:22 PM
That's so awesome, Stephanie! I have Medicaid, but yay for the Medicare people! ^_^
Title: Re: Well, some personal good news for me, My insurance will cover GRS
Post by: Annabelle on April 28, 2015, 12:01:13 PM
Woo! Congrats Steph :D

Just curious, since you said medicare, I'm assuming you are seeing a surgeon from Australia? I'm also starting to look into GRS and I have medicare as well so I'm just a little curious.
Title: Re: Well, some personal good news for me, My insurance will cover GRS
Post by: stephaniec on April 28, 2015, 02:32:15 PM
I wish then I could party with all the Aussie's  , but as fate would have it I'm seeing a surgeon in Chicago.