I hit my first snag

Jul 06, 2010

Today I started calling psychologists to schedule my psych eval for the surgery. I finally got a hold of someone other than voicemail and she said that most insurances won't cover a psych eval. She said she could put it through for me and see if I get any kind of reimbursement, but most people don't.

This Dr's fee was $300. A Dr I called last week said she doesn't accept my insurance but her fee is only $150. I called my husband to see if he can look into our benefits and sure enough, our insurance does not cover psych evals unless there's a disorder. He said he remembers another program at work that had counseling and other things, so he's going to see if we still have that program and if it covers psych evals.

If not, I'm going to try and call Barix, maybe they can refer me to someone who does psych evals cheap or will do a payment plan. If that doesn't work out, I'll make the appt with the dr who only charges $150. I know $150 isn't a lot, considering this is for something that will forever change my life for the good, but I guess I wasn't expecting my insurance not to cover that.

Other than that, my family doctor appointment is tomorrow and my sleep study is this Friday night! I am nervous about both of these things. I am so worried that my family doctor is going to be a jerk to me and say I just need to go on a diet or won't give me the clearance. I'm nervous about the sleep study because I'll be sleeping by myself in a strange environment, but I'm sure everything will be fine.

I will post tomorrow after I get back from my family doctor, wish me luck!

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