OT: GOT TO VENT....

[shasy03]

I'm so frustrated with our government health policies that it isn't funny.  I just want to cry I'm so fed up.  VA has this thing call FAMIS it's "medicaid" although FAMIS MOM's covers pregnant women and children.  So I apply for this because I don't have insurance coverage.  First off they won't process me for 10 days which is standard...but it's 10 days after my application is accepted and it take 2-3 days to be accepted into the system.  So then, I call them yesterday telling them that I have started spotting that I needed to go to the doctor that I needed some verification that I had applied and the OBGYN would see me because of having that information that I applied.  So, they won't fax me anything...NOTHING...ugh.  So they call me today and tell me that they can't read my husbands pay dates on his check stubs.  WTHeck do I have to do with you not being able to read it?  I'm not mailing you his origional pay stub.  So anyway...today they call and say I didn't check if I was a US citizen or not and they are mailing me the information to complete the application...also I didn't put a social in when clearly (on the app that I printed that was the exact same) I did.  So, I had to call the local social service and the lady was so nice... I got all the info faxed to me and filled out and then I submitted the information to them...It was the easiest thing I ever did...AND they gave me the paper I needed to fax to the doctors office.

Why do agencies that are in the capital of the state so much harder to deal with....why do they use people who I can't understand and why can't THEY fax information if the local ones can...

UGH....okay rant over....ready to hear something now...

[shasy03]

I live in Southern VA.  The problem is that I haven't been "approved" yet.  The doctor office I went to said I could fax them a statement from the social service department and they would accept it (I knew the lady in the office)  then another lady said I couldn't because of the FAMIS crap.  I'm just so fed up.  All I want to do is cry because I'm so mad.  So it's a sit and wait.  Obviously if it gets really serious I will call or go to the hospital.  I think I'm gonna end up telling my mom this weekend...I'm scared something is going to happen and then she freak out.

[LosingMyMindInGA]

Is there a public hospital there you can go to?  I dont' know what area you are in.  In Richmond, It would be MCV (atleast it used to).  Anyway, a public hospital, meaning they accept medicaid should be able to see you in the ER without you having to pay on the spot.  Your medicaid should be retroactive to when you applied which would mean it would cover the ER visit.  

I, too, was born and mostly raised in Virginia...got the heck outta there as soon as I could LOL!

[shasy03]

I have lived in VA for all my life other than 3 years I was in AZ when I was a baby.  I was born here and everything...why can't they simply look at the top of the application and get your social insead of it being on step 5 too.  Augh...I haven't had very much bleeding since this morning (TMI Sorry)  This morning it was really red and everything but not bright...maybe rosy colored.  Then this afternoon it's like it's mixed with the mucus (again TMI sorry) and it's brownish.  I don't feel like a mc is in the mix but then again I don't know.  The pain I do not have...it feels like something is pulling and tugging under my belly button...like a stretching pain.  So I'm praying it's just my uterus stretching.

[LosingMyMindInGA]

Eww, I'm sorry!! I'm having to deal with Hospice and Social Services in VA right becuase my Mom is still there and is in the hospital with Advanced stage Lung Cancer.  Virginia has ALWAYS been a pain in the arse state becuase it's a commonwealth.

[shasy03]

As soon as I'm done with school we will no longer be in VA either.  We will be NC bound.  I do have to work in VA for 2 years after school which is this Spring.

[shasy03]

No, no doctor will see me until I get approved.  I'm so tired of getthing thrown here there and everywhere....ugh it *****.  Then when you do find a doctors office then they have to approve you or not.  So I found one that will but now they say they won't accept FAMIS.  The caseworker at social service said that I would have to be lower than a certain point to get FAMIS and  then if I'm lower than a certain FAMIS number then and only then can I get medicaid.  So that doctors office won't accept FAMIS but will accept Medicaid.  But you gotta go through FAMIS to get Medicaid.  It's to confusing and all my emotions are not up for this.  I'm just ready to be seen.  Woke up to some bleeding this morning and nothing really other than a few spots since this morning.

[LosingMyMindInGA]

BEcuase Richmond *****, they don't feel they should have to do anything beyond what they feel like doing....been there done that.  That's one of the long list of reasons I no longer live in VA.  

Have you been to see the doc yet?

[therese101]

So how did you go at the doctor, was everything ok?