If you want to know why Aetna doesn't cover Stretta procedures, you can take a look at their long & detailed policy review of GERD treatment devices. Executive summary, they have looked at a lot of...
If I want to protest the cost, just on principle, best to do that via my insurance company, hospital billing department, or both? I can afford the projected copay (though not happy about it), but...
I know medical care charges can be ridiculous, but this one seems over the top. I've been working with a GI specialist on a chronic GERD condition, and went in a couple weeks ago for a 24-hour...
I'm still on Nexium but have not had the shivering problem at all for a long time. So if the PPIs were the direct cause, presumably my body adjusted. Or something else was going on. I manage to cut...
Wondering if anyone has thoughts about probable/possible underlying causes for a sequence of GI events over the past few months. Last fall I was having some increasingly bothersome lower right...
No, tablet form. A day later, off the Prilosec, chill/shaking symptoms have not recurred, but I'm having increased symptoms of delayed stomach emptying along with the GERD. So I'm guessing that the...
I'm a GERD newbie, age 62, never anything worse than occasional heartburn over the years until a couple of months ago. During that time I've progressed from having intestinal bloat/discomfort...