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Topic: Kaiser LLMD? Pref Mid-atlantic

Pantsinsocks
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Member # 7440

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Hi,
I've lost my full time job to this nightmare of a disease. so I have had to purchase insurance for my family thru the Exchange.

Does anyone know of a LLMD in the Kaiser system, preferably Mid-atlantic. I live in Virginia.

Thanks so much!
PantsinSocks

Posts: 67 | From Fredericksburg, VA USA | Registered: Jun 2005 | IP: Logged |

hopingandpraying
Frequent Contributor (5K+ posts)
Member # 9256

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Check the online state Lyme groups at:
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/virginialyme

Maybe they can help.

Another resource (including Support Group info):
www.lyme-aware.org/virginia.html

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Keebler
Honored Contributor (25K+ posts)
Member # 12673

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I'm sorry to be the one to post this (really, I am) yet information is so important to gather about Kaiser. Most with lyme never find any help at Kaiser, anywhere in the U.S.

Often, the very lyme tests they do are shipping all over, beyond the best time lines for testing to labs that are not very good at testing. And they do the wrong tests.

Kaiser has made a very deliberate effort to do all they can to put up roadblock after roadblock regarding lyme.

I'm so very sorry.

1. Talk to your closest lyme support group, any state group and then also those around your state regarding patient experiences with Kaiser in your state.

And for other options.

http://lyme.kaiserpapers.org/lyme-disease-information-specific-to-kaiser.html

Lyme Disease Specific Information to Kaiser

Not BY or FROM Kaiser, but ABOUT Kaiser by independent lyme patient advocacy groups who share their experiences and research about dealing with Kaiser (and other insurances in some states)
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Posts: 48021 | From Tree House | Registered: Jul 2007 | IP: Logged |

Keebler
Honored Contributor (25K+ posts)
Member # 12673

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Be sure to connect with this group:

https://sites.google.com/site/virginialyme/

VIRGINIA LYME

https://sites.google.com/site/virginialyme/idsa-pa

IDSA - NOT recommended.

I post this link from Virginia Lyme because the Infectious Disease Doctors with Kaiser (and with all insurance groups, medical university centers, etc. are members of the IDSA -- and they do not acknowledge lyme as someone with lyme requires.
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