My Daughter
My daughter who will be 23 years old soon, has suffered with migraine headache since she was 8 years old. She finds no relief from the medicines available, having taken Imitrex, Florinal, Floricet, Max-Alt, the list goes on and on. Her headaches are so bad she's had to be taken to hospital numerous times. The most recent emergency room visit was today. The usual procedure is to give her demerol and compazine. She suffers and it's horrible. My husbands health insurance will cover her until 12/31/9. She has been under the care of a nuerologist for years now, and the doctor said she has to go to the emergency room when her pain is so bad, but my insurance company refuses to pay for the ER visits. It goes like this: First you have to get a referral from the primary physician to see the nuerologist. And although the nuerologist has told her to go to the ER, the insurance company says the primary has to refer her, they will not accept the prescription to go from the nuerologist because he is not the primary. Stupid, isn't it? Now, I've called the primary's office and explained this to one of his staff only to be told that Dr. So and So did not refer her to the emergency room and he will not say that he did. I know in the past the insurance has paid for the ER visits, but now they are refusing and the bills coming in for August alone total over $1,200. Has any one of you encountered this problem and if so how did you resolve it? Jicki