how to get OHIP to fund CCSVI treatment
Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2012 9:21 am
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Dr. Hugh Langley is the medical adviser to the general manager of Ontario's OHIP.
I propose that the Canadian members of SIR put together such a proposal. The question would be why CCSVI treatment should be funded prior to going through double-blind testing. Compassionate exemption and precedence of treatment of central venous stenosis come to mind.
Here is the medical community that OHIP is currently listening to:
We need the medical community, which would be the IRs, to make a proposal to OHIP that CCSVI treatment for CCSVI be funded.Langley acknowledged that not all treatments funded by OHIP go through double-blind testing first. But that only happens if the medical community proposes funding a procedure, he said. To this point, "there has been no proposal made in Ontario to OHIP to publicly fund CCS-VI for MS."
Dr. Hugh Langley is the medical adviser to the general manager of Ontario's OHIP.
I propose that the Canadian members of SIR put together such a proposal. The question would be why CCSVI treatment should be funded prior to going through double-blind testing. Compassionate exemption and precedence of treatment of central venous stenosis come to mind.
Here is the medical community that OHIP is currently listening to:
IRs can speak to the fact that blood flow is of importance and that outflow obstructions obstruct outflow, and has an established fix in angioplasty. When it comes to matters of blood flow, their opinion weighs more than that of the neurologists. This is not about brain lesions but vein lesions.With a handful of exceptions, Ontario's medical community remains hostile to the treatment. In an email, one Ottawa neurologist labelled the response to it by MS patients "mass hysteria" and likened its proponents to a cult.