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I finished a partial hospital about 10 days ago--a week ago Friday. It went very well, I improved greatly felt better than I had in years.
I was referred to the hospital's day treatment program, but my insurance is Medicare which won't cover hospital-based day treatment programs. They cover independent clinics, but for reasons previously specified that hasn't been a fruitful process.
You can file for payment assistance for that hospital system. Good for one year it will pay/help pay for medical care. It's a very simple one page form.
The problem is they say it can take up to 30 days to process and I need treatment now. They don't have a clinical track to go with the financial processing, i.e. they don't inquire about or require physician's requests for getting the assistance. This also means they don't distinguish between someone needing help now vs. someone not needing/wanting now.
MH program staff doesn't know much about payment assistance but that it exists. Assistance staff doesn’t know anything about taking into consideration timeliness and prioritizing. No one in the hospital can help me on this. I can't believe I'm the only one who has this issue.
If I enrolled right now, I'd be responsible for all costs unless assistance became available in the future.
Can't pay, can't get treatment. Need it now.
Is anyone familiar with these types of health company assistance programs and how they work? I don't know what to do next.
I'm getting into very dark territory. I was up for 36 hours Sun/Mon; barely sleep. Obsess like crazy feel very sui again. The 3 weeks of partial appear wasted.
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out of my mind, left behind
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