The NY Times on hip resurfacing, a growing alternative to hip replacement. UnitedHealth apparently is behind the curve:
He said his insurer, United Healthcare, initially denied coverage because he wanted to go out of the approved doctors’ network and that several of the United representatives whom he spoke with on the phone were confused because they had never heard of the procedure. United eventually provided oral approval. Mr. Torretta still did not have that in writing by the time he underwent the operation.
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Classic example of people that have no clue about medicine making medical decisions. 100 out of 100 orthopods could tell you what hip resurfacing is.
they probably heard of resurfacing but can’t tell you the history. Or, they only know the early development where the device was not sucessful. Some surgeons talk bad about it because they don’t want to learn a new procedure. I should now, I had the bilateral resurfacing four years ago in Europe when the procedure was not fda approved in the usa.
I had hip resurfacing done 2-07 make sure you ask about foot drop,total sciatic nerve being compressed some how? My leg is paralized from my knee down.Nerve conduction studies show severe damage no ACTIVITY.Send this experiment back to england.
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