Hi 4321nate,
Since I haven't had the chance to welcome you yet - Welcome to our community!!
While there are some LLMD's that will take insurance, or will work with patients on taking payments, most won't because it's the insurance companies that are responsible for many of them to be brought before the State Medical board. So by filing insurance, they are leading the insurance co's straight to them.
If you wish to see if I have any listings that you haven't seen already, you can send me an email by clicking on my screen name or the small blue envelope under my screen name. I have contact information for some LLMD's in your area as well. Please include your state and area that you would like to find a LLMD in and I will see how close I can get to your
location.
I'm not sure which of these referral options you've been given yet, so please pardon any duplicates:
You can email the Tick-Borne Disease Alliance at
[email protected] for LLMD referrals and you can go to
tbdalliance.org to learn more about
these infections.
You can also go to The Lyme Disease Association and search for LLMD's 3 times in a month. You have to register first. Here is the link:
www.lymediseaseassociation.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=277&Itemid=74 You will want to find an ILADS trained doctor, as ID Docs (Infectious Disease Doctors) believe Lyme is hard to catch and easy to treat, and don't believe in the reality of chronic Lyme. Go to the ILADS site to read the new (2014) Treatment guidelines to get you started on your healing journey:
www.ilads.org/lyme/treatment-guideline.php And here are some resources for you to check into to help you afford all of this better:
Please take the time to go through these links. There will be some duplicate posts in them, but each of them have something valuable:
Care Creditwww.carecredit.com/www.carecredit.com/howcarecreditworks/————————————————————————–
www.goodrx.com/—————————————————————————–
www.lduc.org/lyme-disease-resources——————————————————————————
/prescriptionhope.com/—————————————————————————-
/www.rxhope.com/about.aspx—————————————————————————–
www.pparx.org——————————————————————————-
www.needymeds.org—————————————————————————————————
www.healingwell.com/community/default.aspx?f=30&m=2958427&p=1—————————————————————————————————
www.gooddaysfromcdf.org/for-patients/patient-assistance/—————————————————————————————————
lymedisease.org/news/touchedbylyme/lyme-financial-destruction.html—————————————————————————————————
lymeunderground.com/survival-tactics-getting-by-on-a-limited-budget/—————————————————————————————————
lyme.kaiserpapers.org/financial-assistance.html—————————————————————————————————
lymedisease.org/news/touchedbylyme/needy-meds.html—————————————————————————————————
www.lduc.org/lyme-disease-resources