I had a knee surgery last year and while dealing with my insurance company was a pain about equal to the surgery itself, they ultimately had to pay for rehab because they couldn’t disagree that rehab after a surgery like this is absolutely necessary

[–] Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I've got UHC and I recently had a hernia surgery.

When I went in about my hernia, because it was hurting really bad, they ended up finding another hernia that wasn't causing any pain. But because the other one wasn't causing any pain, UHC denied my surgery to fix the one that wasn't causing pain because it wasn't deemed medically necessary.

So basically when I went in to fix the one hernia, the doctor couldn't fix the other hernia because UHC wouldn't cover that half of the surgery.

So I'm sitting here years later with a hernia that I'm just waiting on the day that it starts hurting so that I can go spend another few thousand dollars fixing all because UHC didn't want to pay for preventative maintenance.

Edit: And I almost forget the best part, after the surgery they took 5 months to pay because they wanted to ensure that the other hernia wasn't fixed. And because they took so long to pay when I had to pay it was a nightmare for me using my FSA account for it.

Fuck UHC.