The epidural is now scheduled for this Thursday 3pm as they had a cancellation after they originally put me on the schedule in two weeks. two weeks of headaches, I would have been unable to live with by then. so hoping for great relief on the first try with this treatment of herniated discs.
Today I made tons of phone calls, checking insurance coverage with the Carticel Care company in TX who has possesion of my cartilage cells extracted in March for the transplant surgery. I asked some questions about how long it takes to start the culturing procedure and get the cells back to CA upon insurance approval (insurance approval is holding up the start) and he assured me that anywhere from 2-4 weeks but 6 at the longest... so the delay we are expecting might not be as long from the Nov17th date.. but since my insurance through the end of the year is 100%, getting it done with this in mind is important - just the cartilage procedure alone is $30,000. So I than shifted gears and called the surgeons insurance billing and asked him to check all of the "middle men" issues and assure me whether they are in or out of network providers (carticel, cadaver bone, 2day hospital stay) so that I know if I'm going to have any financial debt from this.. his answer was "no" all are in network providers.. so for today I am breathing a sigh of relief...
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