Aching Ovaries...
Okay, in my last post I crazily wondered what the hell was up with my not having a single symptom of the FSH. I must have jinxed myself. The very next day I started to have a bit of a twinge in one ovary. Kind of like an ovulation twinge. But that's impossible. The 20iu of lupron I'm shooting up morning and evening is doing the job of making sure that (ie, ovulation) does not occur.
So today I went to acupuncture and while I was laying on the table, Dr. Liu softely pinched my cheek and poked my belly and proclaimed, "You've gained weight! Your cheeks are looking chubbier!" Interestingly enough I haven't felt like I've gained weight, but okay, maybe a pound or two did sneak on. But what really got to me today is the feeling of heaviness, achiness in my ovaries. They literally ACHE today. Gosh. Are those 10 follicles finally filling with fluid? I am anxious to hear what Dr. Z will find when he does the U/S tomorrow morning.
So retrieval is scheduled for sometime between February 1 and 4, and the transfer sometime between February 3 and 7. I'm close to running out of FSH, maybe 2 days plus 4 vials left. So that makes 2.5 days left. One of the crones has some 450iu Gonal F pens left for sale so I'll hit her up for a few of hers. Thank god that she has them. Dr. Z wanted $60+ per vial, or $180 per shot...$360 a day.
Health Net Sucks Ass:
Got a stack of letters from HealthNet today. I opened up the biggest one. HealthNet has denied my appeal that they should pay for the anaesthesia for the surgery I had in October. I don't get it. My doctor was contracted with HealthNet. My surgery center was contracted with HealthNet. But the anaesthesiologist WASN'T? On further investigation, it turns out that HealthNet PPO isn't contracted with ANYONE in our county for anaesthesia services.
Mind you, there are still FOURTEEN other letters to open. If that isn't scary/stressful, I don't know what is. I imagine they're a stack of, "Sorry but we're not going to pay for a single lab test that you've had" letters. I don't know if I should even bother opening a single one of them until I know if this cycle is successful or not. I don't think the stress of fighting an insurance company is good for me. They're a wretched insurance company and I plan on fighting them in arbitration as well as at the state level. Bastards.
So today I went to acupuncture and while I was laying on the table, Dr. Liu softely pinched my cheek and poked my belly and proclaimed, "You've gained weight! Your cheeks are looking chubbier!" Interestingly enough I haven't felt like I've gained weight, but okay, maybe a pound or two did sneak on. But what really got to me today is the feeling of heaviness, achiness in my ovaries. They literally ACHE today. Gosh. Are those 10 follicles finally filling with fluid? I am anxious to hear what Dr. Z will find when he does the U/S tomorrow morning.
So retrieval is scheduled for sometime between February 1 and 4, and the transfer sometime between February 3 and 7. I'm close to running out of FSH, maybe 2 days plus 4 vials left. So that makes 2.5 days left. One of the crones has some 450iu Gonal F pens left for sale so I'll hit her up for a few of hers. Thank god that she has them. Dr. Z wanted $60+ per vial, or $180 per shot...$360 a day.
Health Net Sucks Ass:
Got a stack of letters from HealthNet today. I opened up the biggest one. HealthNet has denied my appeal that they should pay for the anaesthesia for the surgery I had in October. I don't get it. My doctor was contracted with HealthNet. My surgery center was contracted with HealthNet. But the anaesthesiologist WASN'T? On further investigation, it turns out that HealthNet PPO isn't contracted with ANYONE in our county for anaesthesia services.
Mind you, there are still FOURTEEN other letters to open. If that isn't scary/stressful, I don't know what is. I imagine they're a stack of, "Sorry but we're not going to pay for a single lab test that you've had" letters. I don't know if I should even bother opening a single one of them until I know if this cycle is successful or not. I don't think the stress of fighting an insurance company is good for me. They're a wretched insurance company and I plan on fighting them in arbitration as well as at the state level. Bastards.
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post a commentScrew Healthnet! I've spent hours on the phone with them get one excuse after another for why they: 1. take forever to process a claim; 2. tell me that tests and procedures are completely covered after I spend time getting them pre-certified and confirming verbally and online that the doctor is in their network; and 3. not paying the claim because the diagnosis code that the doctor wrote on their goddam pre-existing condition form is on their list of stuff they won't cover. I pay a ton of money every month for the privelege of having to track tons of paperwork, spend hours on the phone, and pretty much pay for every doctor visit out of my own pocket. Today is the beginning of my jihad against HealthNet. I have all the experience in the world to build an online community of like-minded HealthNet haters, and I have siblings who produce investigative TV and radio segments for this country's most prominent network news organizations. Let's hear from others who are ready to band together against these fraudulent scam artists!
i agree!!! they don't return calls. they are so paranoid of responsibility and of the fact that they screw with people's lives so much they will not even give their last name on the phone. they don't cover sh*t! their benchmarks on what a surgery costs are HALF of what other health companies estimate.
they are crook-stylin' like all private health care companies here. why haven't we started an american revolution against provate healthcare?
My child was born 7/7/09 and went for a wellness check up on 8/19. When they were a month old they got a couple of shots and a look over $283.00. Health Net rejected the claim. When I called them up and asked why they said that my child was not on the plan. I said that I pay the family plan for my other child so I was paying the correct amount. They said that I had 30 days to put my child on the plan and if not they dropped the child. I said that you knew that my wife was pregnant and that my child was born. Could they have sent me a letter, the guy "Brian K." he said that he is not allowed to give his last name. Anyway he said that in my instruction booklet that I got when I got the insurance "2 years ago" states this. So for 3 months my child has had no health insurance. So child is on now but they will not cover the last three months of bills!!!!! I hope they can sleep at night!!!!!
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That's just terrible. I hope that your baby was fine and didn't need anything more than the shots. They're a terrible company to deal with. I am so grateful that I have BCBS now. They've been fantastic to deal with.