The Uninsured

The plan was to attempt to discharge today but the discharge planner said that she just can't pull it together that quickly. Perhaps tomorrow. After all, she has to try to reason with the insurance company to cover that antibiotic orally. But the complicated part is that they are not our insurance company. In fact, we are uninsured. We are trying to get Medicaid through Social Security Disability but it has been a very long and extremely frustrating process. Leaving us hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt to Primary Children's alone. (Ask me how good our credit looks right now--we're sinking quicker than the Titanic) We are awaiting a Medical Review Board Hearing to sort of hurry the process but have not yet received word of when that hearing will take place. We were told in August that it would take 6 weeks. It has been 3 months. Brody is also on a waiting list for Medicaid under a Travis Waiver which is free Medicaid for anybody who is technologically dependant (a trach/vent child for example). I was informed today that Brody is at the very top of the waiting list but they do not foresee and open slot until March. So we'll just keep hoping and praying for an insurance miracle and try to "stay afloat" until then.