I would be glad to share my experience with you all. I am writing a diary about the whole ordeal. If you are interested in reading that just send me your e-mail address.
mktp58@hotmail.com It is still very hard for me to talk about it with out tears rolling down my face. As far as the insurance company goes, they were like every other insurance company and said that they would have to get all kinds of info from the doctor and hospital to be sure the air ambulance was "medically necessary" !!!!! This was at 9am on Friday morning via my mother talking to them from Texas. I knew that proving medical necessity could take a couple of days and I truly believed Barry would not be alive in 2 days if I didn't get him home. Now I know that was probably true. So, thank the Lord I was able to come up with 21,000 in order to get the ball rolling with the air ambulance, MedCenter Air out of North Carolina. The guy that I worked with was Allen. He was wonderful. He called the doctors at both hospitals and arranged everything, ambulances and all. He didn't even start getting things together till close to noon. Then at 11:15 pm they were walking through the doors at the ICU in St. Martin. Now that we are back home and recovering I am trying to get reimbursed for the 21,000. The insurance is requesting all kinds of information from MedCenter Air and the hospitals. But.......hopefully we will recover part, if not all that money. I am having trouble getting a bill from the hospital in St. Martin. Their computers were down when we left Friday and so I had already given them a $2900 deposit and they couldn't tell me for sure how much the bill would be. They thought around $1700, (cheap huh?) but I have yet to see a bill or a refund and the insurance wont pay that back till I get an itemized statement. But, all in all, even if I do not get one cent back, I have the love of my life sitting next to me tonight, talking and smiling. Thank you for your prayers as we still have a lot of recovering to do. Marcia
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