This Is MS Multiple Sclerosis Community: Knowledge & Support

Great! Please let us know how it goes for you. Good Luck and hoping for geat results.

Donnchadh

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Sounds like they are scheduling patients now. They asked if I wanted to move my appt up. I'm happy that he will have a little more experience before I get there. Starting to get excited.

I heard from the clinic yesterday that my insurance will not be excepted & the total cost is $10,000 for diagnostic venography & angioplasty.

NP

I was told $7500 for the U/S and procedure and around $2500 for the arixtra script without insurance.

Nothing was said about the script, but this was a short email telling me about the insurance not being excepted & then the costs for the procedure if paying out of pocket.

I was quoted US$7,500 plus the cost of Arixtra (which was paid to Walmart, not to AAC), but haven't received the Medicare Explanation of Benefits for the procedure yet.

Maybe they havce decided to raise the price of treatment?

Donnchadh

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npost999, are you local to Chicago? There are at least two other doctors performing CCSVI treatment in Chicago, you'll want to check with them to see if they accept your insurance. If you're here in the Midwest, we've also got Dr. Cumming in Minneapolis. My insurance would not have been accepted at AAC Chicago but it would've been at AAC Atlanta or Dr. Siskin or Dr. Cumming or one of the other Chicago docs, etc.

I'm in Illinois, but not local to Chicago...about 4 1/2 hours away. I've met with one of the other Chicago doctors back in November, but wasn't really sold on him and there was a couple of things that I didn't care for during our meeting. I'm looking at changing health plans in May to become effective in July & will see if then it would be covered. I figure paying a little extra each month will be more cost efficient than paying the $10K out of pocket or so. Plus I've passed up a couple appointments & waited several months already, so whats waiting another two months to change insurance plans.

if you feel comfortable saying, how much did it cost? testing and procedure?
they use the full zamboni procedure for testing, right?

sorry to bug you with all these questions


how do you feel, any improvement you noticed so far?

How did your follow up go?

Has Dr. Makris started up again with testing & doing the procedure?

anamishguy was patient #5 recently:
www.thisisms.com/ftopict-15972.html

many thanks for the link, never saw that when I scanned the topics on the board...guess I need to read closer.

Thanks again

Just got here to Oak Brook today, I have my ultrasound tomorrow!

Good Luck!

Let us know what happens.

Donnchadh

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Kitty says, "Take that, you stenosis!"

Got MS?.....Get Liberated!