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Re: What would you call PCOS if you had a chance to give it a name?
From: Richard (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Fri, 22 Sep 2000 12:30:10 -0700
I would just like to say that I am in total agreement with the
misunderstandings that insurance companies have about PCOS. I am so
fortunate to have a wonderful doctor who is fighting tooth and nail with
my insurance company to get me the proper treatment I need, but the
fighting has paid off my insurance has agreed to pay for Avandia the
medication I am on even though it is not on the preferred perscription
plan on my insurance. She has also managed to get them to pay for
routine visits every three months, wich they did not want to pay for in
the beginning. I could not have asked for a better blessing in my life,
for I to am so scared of the outcome if PCOS if untreated. Keep fighting
everyone!!!!
On Fri, 22 Sep 2000 11:53:12 -0500 anonymous@medispecialty.com (Barbara )
writes:
> At Tue, 12 Sep 2000, connie wrote:
> >
> >At Mon, 11 Sep 2000, Paula wrote:
> >>
> >>What would you call PCOS if you had a chance to give it a name?
> >>
> >>I believe if it were renamed as a metabolic disorder and not just
> an gynecological disorder/syndrome, maybe the health insurance
> companies might be more willing to cover the costs of treatment for
> those of us who have fought for insurance coverage for PCOS
> treatment! This disorder/syndrome has serious lifelong consequences
> if left untreated - diabetes, heart disease, etc. Too many family
> doctors say "PCOS" is only an infertility problem and we shouldn't
> worry about it unless we want to get pregnant. Well, they need to
> get re-educated about this syndrome and so do the insurance
> companies.
>
> In a recent Letter to the Editor appearing in the September/October
> 2000
> >>issue of Endocrine Practice, Dr. Eric Orzeck, a PCOSupport
> Professional
> >>member, and Siara George from Baylor College of Medicine in
> Houston have
> >>proposed a new name for PCOS. PCOSupport invites you to visit our
> web
> >>site at http://www.pcosupport.org
> >>and read their letter. You can also participate in the PCOSupport
> >>Survey about the name. The initial results and select comments
> will be
> >>presented at a conference next week!
> >>
> >>--
> >>Paula Puffer
> >>Director of Online Services
> >>The Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome Association
> >>
> >--
> >i would call it the hudini syndrome.... connie
> >
>
> --
> Barbara
>
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