When a health insurer won't pay for an ER visit
Thursday, April 5, 2012 - 12:00
in Health & Medicine
Guidelines on how to fight to get medical plan to pay for medically necessary visit.Our 7-year-old daughter awoke screaming and could not be comforted or touched. We took her to the emergency room. Now our insurance company is denying the visit, saying that it wasn't medically necessary for her to be seen in the ER. Yet the emergency room physician considered a spinal tap to rule out meningitis. How could this visit not be necessary?