Hello everyone- i am so frustrated i need to vent- so thank you for being here for me. My surgery is scheduled for next Monday..I received an approval from my insurance, so i was relieved everything was taken care of with that. On Friday afternoon, the neuro office calls and says my claim was denied because I have Medicare-which i don't! I used to have Medicare but it terminated in 2004. I had to call Social Security to find that date out and by time i called the office back, it was closed. That pretty much made my weekend very stressful. I received the new "denial" in the mail Saturday and left a message with the Expedited review office. I am supposed to have PAT's on Tuesday, so tomorrow I am hoping to be able to straighten this out..but I don't know what's going to happen and I really don't want to dealay the surgery because you know there is so much involved in planning- for example, my husband took time off from work to care for me, etc... I really don't need this added stress right now. I swear I think the insurance companies dig this stuff up to delay things. UGH!!! and why do they leave this stuff for when it's down to the wire? My surgery was scheduled 2 months ago. I've been really calm about everything, until this!