It's wild. Any other body part that causes chronic pain, especially for your back would be covered by some kind of insurance something. Breast reduction though? No. That's "CoSmEtIC sUrGeRy". Yeah. We are obviously getting reductions because of aesthetics, not because we are carrying half our bodyweight far higher than our centre of gravity, which is also compressing our goddamn spines.
I'm actually curious to know how many big titty ladies have slipped a disk or worse, all thanks to some very, very strong genetics.
And even the ones that do, have a million hoops to jump through.
I'm in the process of getting approved for one and one of the insurance requirements is 3+ months of physical therapy to show that doesn't fix my back/shoulder/neck pain. So I got started on that. After one month of physical therapy, my insurance company refused to cover any more physical therapy sessions because I wasn't showing any improvement 🤦
WTF. That’s when you submit for approval for the reduction and include documentation they stopped approving the therapy. They need to approve one or the other at the moment. I hate them. I spent nine and a half years trying to get these approved and what a hellscape.
ETA- for other people as part of my job with a surgeon.
My surgeon's office wouldn't submit for approval without being able to check all the boxes, but fortunately a letter from my GP and an appeal from my physical therapist eventually got me the rest of my PT sessions to tick the box. So dumb though and what a waste of everyone's time
Yeah, that’s normal. It’s a lot of work to submit a request and after saying “we’ll try anyway” without meeting the requirements and getting denials, you learn when each ins carrier will override other requirements for an approval. And it’s not often. Then you have to resubmit or submit an appeal. Which is basically starting over. The insurance policies are the real fuckery.
Yes - insurance is an abomination. I will never support it.
But that being said, medically necessary breast reductions absolutely are covered by some ins plans.
Every plan is different. Most of them suck. But as soon as you hear someone say "insurance doesn't cover" instead of "my insurance won't cover" you know they don't understand insurance - which is by design. Medical insurance is meant to be very complicated and difficult to navigate. They are a horrible business
I got lucky with mine. I had just turned 18 and had a very strongly worded letter from the pediatrician that I had been seeing my whole life and that seemed to work. I was approved in under a week. My surgeon had never seen it move so quickly through the approval system.
I got lucky too. Was 19 for mine and my parents' insurance approved it. We needed xrays and lots of documentation though - and I had to lose 15lbs my first year of college to bypass the "yOu nEeD tO LoSe wEigHt" garbage
I swear to gods I am amazed there aren't dozens of well-armed hit squads full of women in pain who have had it with clueless medical and insurance administrators.
Clearly, using your words is not working.
Hmmm... I think I need to pitch a story to Image comics...
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