The Gentle Giant
Aren't you from Vermont Jack?
Anyway......the guy they took the chair away from, he was one of our favorite patients........The Gentle Giant. This guy was 6'8" tall.......huge (not fat) guy, had to duck through doorways when he was still walking, everyone looked UP to him. We wouldn't have even know about his chair being taken away if not for his wife who came to us for help. He is the most kind, gentle, caring person........he took his illness in stride even though he had been through hell and back with all the barrage of tests that left them financially strapped.
The girls came to me because they knew I would put the smackdown on his insurance company.........BC/BS. They wouldn't pay 100% because of "medical necessity"...........Well as you can imagine, I gave them medical necessity and then some. When I appealed and the Medical Director tried to deny 100%, I did some digging. There is usually a reason a medical doctor ends up on an insurance companies payroll. I found his reason and he ended up agreeing the Gentle Giant not only "needed" this chair, he needed a better one than he had..........he was too big for the other one............and they also agreed to pay 100% of the cost.
Let this be a lesson to ya............don't mess around with JillianBacardi when it comes to insurance companies, medical necessity and trying to screw over our patients. I became notorious for putting the smackdown on them. That is why people came to me.