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Insurance Denying PART of Surgery
Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Jan 16 8:04am | Replies (13)Comment receiving replies
Update to this.
The doctor reached out to me via the portal and basically said "screw the insurance, we are going to do this and if they don't pay us then we don't charge you but we are not going to sacrifice your care for the sake of insurance approving or denying the best course of action for you".
That's not only pretty amazing but speaks highly that I chose the right doctor (again), the right hospital and am in the best hands.
For those interested in the procedure, it's called Urethropexy and is over 90% effective for preventing incontinence. This is generally done when you have a problem but some skilled surgeons can do this ahead of time and my doctor does this as a matter of course. I trust him, he's got many thousands of prostatectomy's and urethropexy's under his belt.
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That’s great news…but he had to do it, actually. If he did not do what he recommended because you balked at payment and he wound up having a very unhappy, incontinent patient on his hands, he would have left himself WIDE OPEN to a negligence lawsuit.
He would have been sued for withholding optimal care. Not saying he’s not a great guy anyway, but he painted himself into a corner trying to get a few more bucks.
That’s health care and the legal system such as it is today. Best of luck with your procedure!
Phil