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DANG IT !! Disability Review Extended
by rendean, Nov 07, 2009 02:45PM
Just received my mail for today and in it was a letter stating that they are extending their review of my records for an additional 30 days. Dang it is NOT the word that is floating around in my head nor coming out of mouth.
This review was supposed to be 90 days and end September 3rd. In the meantime, I am without any income, cannot find another job to produce income and am getting madder with each letter from the disability company.
I really do not know what is so hard to understand. My job description states I must be physcially in my office to accomplish my work. I cannot work from home. I have episodic vertigo therefore I cannot drive 35 miles one way to work. My neuro wants wait and see how the vertigo continues to resolve. NO rush hour driving allowed.
There is no public transportation available. So, the simple facts are I have to be at the office to work. I cannot drive to the office, therefore I cannot work. What is so difficult about this?????????????
And, this doesn't even address the balance issues, nor the generalized weakness, blurred vision and decline in executive function. Who do they hire to these reviews??The ones that lost at Tiddly Winks?? Arrrrrgh!
Thanks for letting me vent.
Riled up Ren
This review was supposed to be 90 days and end September 3rd. In the meantime, I am without any income, cannot find another job to produce income and am getting madder with each letter from the disability company.
I really do not know what is so hard to understand. My job description states I must be physcially in my office to accomplish my work. I cannot work from home. I have episodic vertigo therefore I cannot drive 35 miles one way to work. My neuro wants wait and see how the vertigo continues to resolve. NO rush hour driving allowed.
There is no public transportation available. So, the simple facts are I have to be at the office to work. I cannot drive to the office, therefore I cannot work. What is so difficult about this?????????????
And, this doesn't even address the balance issues, nor the generalized weakness, blurred vision and decline in executive function. Who do they hire to these reviews??The ones that lost at Tiddly Winks?? Arrrrrgh!
Thanks for letting me vent.
Riled up Ren
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my insurance denied my appeal to order by Copaxone 90 days at a time, because it would save me $200 a year in my copay. They say specialty drugs, according to my policy, can only be ordered 30 days at a time.
I guess my only choice is to go back and appeal their mandate that I have to use their pharmacy for my specialty drug and see if I can use one of the SS pharmacies that rebate/cover the copay back to the patient.
Why do things that are so simple and obvious to us have to be so complicated to the bureacrats?
I am so, so sorry that your disability is still hanging out there - is there any way to light a fire under them through your hr department or a legal affairs office?
sorry you're still hanging,
Lulu
Regarding the Copaxone...wonder if we use the same company. I WAS getting my copax 90 days at a time and on Oct. 1st they switched to another speciality pharmacy and now I must re-order my meds each month. What a pain in the neck!
Ren
Lu - Does the phrase "Sweetheart Deal" ring a bell?
Quix
When I was waiting for my Social Security Disability to come through, and had statements from doctors and Voc Rehab that I was disabled, unable to work, this insurance company kept insisting they had to review more records, and if I didn't make weekly payments, they would repossess the car, and I would be sent to collections for the outstanding debt.
I worked around the house of my landlord to pay the rent so I could pay car payments, read the fine print, hollered at the fools, and finally was sent a healthy rebate check from the company for all those payments that I'd scrabbled for.
A few months later, my SSD came through and I got a lot of $$ in retro disability payments. I hope that's the way this disability of yours works, or they at least get off their you-know-whats and give you your bleeping disability payments!
On a happier note, I was sent papers for a re-review a few months ago, to see if I was still eligible for SSD. A few days ago I received a letter stating that they had no reason to do a further review at this time, and my SSD payments would still be mine.
Kathy
One of my friends had to quit working last year and had was paid up in her companies long-term disabiility insurance policy. What a joke getting that policy. Quix said it straight, they are saving money on every month the are not paying you your entitled benefits. I hope the do give you retro pay, if not, fight for it. Get an attorney if you don't already have one.
Hang in there this has to come to an end sometime, hopefully soon!!!!!
Love and hugs,
Julie
Julie: Yes, there is retro pay IF I receive the disability. I am calling tomorrow to see if I still get the pay if I don't get the disability.
Ren