With Infuserve you do have to pay up front but they will submit the bill to your insurance co for reimbursement through the "major medical" part of your plan. Sometimes insurance co's will pay this way when they otherwise refuse to cover IVs.
There is a thread in the General section here called "quick links to popular topics", check it out because in there is another link to "suggestions for when you need treatment and funds are low". You may be able to find some more help there.
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Go to Roche needy meds. they supplied me (with a doctors script)with free rocephin. I had to purchase the saline, dressings and all the other supplies you'll need.
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Our insurance did this same thing. Check to see if they will still cover supplies. Ours covered all supplies but not the abx. They did not tell me this at first. Hope this helps.
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Thanks for the info Fatigued... will do... right now the hospital is looking into taking me as a charity case... sad to be in this position but what do you do..
paying ins with CC, paying monthly minimum to keep ins..... :/
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Just checked with Needy Meds, they say they don't carry rocephin or the generic either...
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Yeah!! Terrific!
Just to know, in case you need to continue longer & the hospital stops helping later on: what sammy said is true. Very often, if you buy out of pocket from Infuserve, and you have them bill your insurance company under Major Medical, the insurance co will pay. They won't tell you ahead of time that they will pay, and you may have to get on them to process it correctly, but they usually do pay. It's not a guarantee, but it's an important little=known fact.
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Did anyone get their doctor to administer a PICC line while letting you use Rocephin from another source?
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My LLMD was ok with me getting rocephin from anyplace... She had a preference but that was just a convenience thing...
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Can you PM me what part of the country you're in? I'm in Kansas City... I don't really have any other options.
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