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I have heard members here saying they will pay. It took 9 months of hounding for my insurance to pay for it.
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Judie
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Plain, old medicare has paid for the Igenex western blot test several times for me along with babesia and bart.
When you do the test, there's a form to fill out for billing information. Be sure to indicate you're a medicare patient and include a copy of your card.
Do not fill in the credit card info on the form unless you're paying for a fish test (or other test not covered by medicare).
I've also submitted my medicare card directly to Igenex via fax and it stays in their system (the doc forgot to submit the copy of the card the first time I did it).
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Rivendell
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Thanks Judie and Lymetoo!
I've never had testing. Been diagnosed by EM rash and other symptoms, Bart rash and other symptoms.
I could never get my brain to work well enough to figure out the IGENEX testing and Medicare payments.
I want to be tested just for future reference, etc.
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Ask them to send you a free kit. When it arrives, you take it to your doctor and he/she signs off on it. Then you send it in with the money/Medicare or whatever.
Remember to get the blood drawn early in the week so that it does not sit in the post office over the weekend.
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Rivendell
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Another question.
The forms included with the test kit state that Medicare won't cover Babs or Bart FISH test.
Judie, you stated they covered Babs and Bart, but not Babs FISH or Bart FISH, correct? Oh, my brain. My doctor has checked B microti IgG, B duncani IgG, and B henselae, so that's okay with Medicare Adv. Plan?
My doctor also included Ehrlichia HME IgG and IgM and Phagocytophilum IgG. Did you have these covered with Medicare Adv. Plan?
I've tried calling Med Adv Plan and the Igenex lab, and they both gave me the run around.
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