Why should we thank anyone for doing nothing? After living in LC Hell for 18 months, my PCP finally gave in to my continual demand for an x-ray of my back due to full body nerve pain. Because I couldn't walk 25 feet without collapsing, nor lift any more than 10 lbs and the one biggie numbness in both arms and hands (Symptom of stroke - heart attack ). My PCP reviewed the neck x-ray and notified me at 10:00 PM on a Friday night that the following Monday he would be prescribing me an MRI. The neck showed severe damage to the neck and upper back disk. I had the MRI of my entire back done on 8/15/2023 that showed 13 of the 23 disk in my back showed both bone and nerve damage. Of course yesterday my insurance carrier's utilization review firm rejected the MRI's based on:

1- " A MRI is pictures of the inside of my body"
2 - A doctor ("Your Doctor") cannot perform a MRI without first declaring nerve damage.

Moron Moron Moron! I can only imagine the qualifications of the individual reviewing my care and contesting the doctor's prescription for diagnostic scans. My guess - Went from 3rd grade home schooling during the pandemic straight to medical director or maybe a body off the streets that would work for minimum wage as long as it didn't include hard labor.

In any case this is what we are fighting - Insurance Carriers that don't want to know what is wrong with us and certainly don't want to pay for it. Doctors that are so controller by the insurance industry - they don't want to upset their sugar daddy issuing the checks (note I didn't say paying the bills) and finally government agencies with no interest in controlling the insurance scavengers.

Luckily I have went through this 10 years ago so I know the process, and that I'll eventually get screwed and my health will suffer but at least when they do it this incompetently Karma (and a little exposure) the responsible entities will be punished. (My previous endeavor resulted in the Owner of the fraudulent M C Plan spent 6 years in the Federal pen.