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I don't want to start the torrent of chaos that was on the hearing aids and cochlear implant section on this topic (I have never come over to this thread before, someone I know on found it and forwarded it to me) except to point out that we do appeals for both BAHAs and hearing aids as well as...

I think if reimbursement was available, the bias would automatically be reduced because the number of providers participating in the process presenting a wider variety of options would increase, and it would also increase the ability of those outside of the direct medical/audiology professions...

The paper you cite is almost eight years old. I'm not saying it's invalid, but given how much and how fast this area is changing (i.e. NBHS), something more recent would be more relevant to what is going on today. Unfortunately this is another area where insurance reimbursement creates a...

Have I ever claimed that the foundation is altruistic or broke? Other people have said altruistic, I haven't. I have said I wished we had more funding so we could expand our program and not turn people away, but that doesn't mean broke. Our cases sometimes take over a year to resolve, we have...

The Foundation has never, and will never, turn away a patient based on their choice of methodology. Do let me know when you are planning to back up your previous financial assertions, instead of continuing to quietly drop topics that you can't back up after stating your "facts". Meanwhile...

I absolutely don't intend to convey the thought that anyone who is deaf is "defective" in any way, so thanks for understanding that.

Silly me, when you talked about posting financial figures, I thought you were going to post something to back up your ridiculously false assertion that clinics are making $40,000 on every implant, not something that was publicly available that *I* urged everyone to go look at already !. The...

If you mean by clinical foundation that LTHF is a foundation with an audiology clinic, then yes, we are a clinical foundation. But to reiterate, 97 % of the appeals I do are for clinics other than ours. Sheri

Not sure I understand the question. We don't have a program that gives people free HAs permanently, if that is the question. We do have a loaner program, which allows people who want aids access to hearing while we try to help them sort out a permanent solution through charities or other...

If you have a written denial, or can send us a copy of the page from your plan saying there is no coverage, you can submit an application. Sheri

Insurance, rent, administrative staff, and medical support staff all cost huge amounts of money. When insurers reimburses $36 per clinic hour for an audiologist (which is the amount reimbursed for some hearing impairment related services), you are all but guaranteed to lose money, especially in...

Absolutely, but only if you can provide verifiable evidence of WHERE the figures came from and WHEN the figures were generated for data validation purposes, otherwise they are useless. I suspect based on the absolute lack of knowledge you have exhibited regarding how CIs are billed and...

Nope, that's not it. We prepare cases for potential litigation by exhausting administrative options ahead of filing a law suit, which BTW, is required under law. We are good enough at it that we haven't had to litigate yet. That is not mediation. Mediation has a very specific definition and...

Thank you very much Tousi, we don't have to agree about everything to be kind to each other :-) Sheri

Too bad you didn't have the common courtesy to contact me before you started spouting off "facts" about a foundation that you clearly know very little about. Large administrative bonus? I hope you can hear me laughing all the way from California. If such a thing did happen, which it...

Boy, I disappear for two months (my house almost burned down and right after that, I had to have surgery) and all heck breaks loose. Thank goodness someone had the common sense to actually contact me (BTW, ALL of my contact information is available online) to let me know the lies that were...

Hey, I'm not the one who threw out the red herring about Smallpox and Polio. Plus, I've already pointed you to the WHO research. I dare you to read it then find something reputable that refutes it.

Show me a citation that backs up what you are saying. An artificial case is what they refer to as one that was directly traced to a vaccination source or a laboratory source rather than occurring with no known source in the population. First you said failure to vaccinate causes virulent...

All you need to do is look at any of the 50+ scientific citations on the Wiki page on Smallpox to know this isn't true. The last case of "wild" smallpox was over 30 years ago. The cases that have occurred since then have all been connected to vaccinations or laboratory research stock. So a)...

I think you are imagining it. I actually intended ot sound annoyed because I had to say the same thing three times because Jillio kept ignoring my point. And if I weren't altruistic, I wouldn't be doing non-profit work for people with hearing impairments, I would be back in corporate law...