Metal Mouth Message Board

Yeah. Braces were/are $5000 for me (no dental insurance). I'm paying 250/mo till January. Not to mention I have to drive 5 hours for my check ups because all of the oral/max surgeons near me are jerks who refuse to do this kind of surgery because they don't get reimbursed as well as they'd like. And...

So I literally just got a call from my doctors office and they said they won't work on the appeal. I have to do it by myself. I don't know what to do. I'm scared that they'll make me do a sleep study if I say I have sleep apnea. How in the world did they approve it for you?? Ahh. I'm going crazy.

Thats going to be my second option, to switch insurance but I honestly can't afford it. If I clam to have sleep apnea, do they require the actual sleep study to be done? What was your "functional impairment"? Because I don't have cancer, tumor, or trauma so they call it cosmetic -.- which ...

[quote=samoorelaw post_id=461272 time=1422778335 user_id=21779] United Health Care paid for mine but not without a long, hard fight (took two appeals). Good luck to you on getting yours covered. [/quote] How did you manage it get it covered? I'm having a lot of trouble with united healthcare. My doc...