August 2019 by Cheyenne Reilly
MY friend, Janet Konig, was referred to this place from Aspirus clinic that is right next door. She has Diabetic Nerophaty of the feet and legs that is getting progressively worse. She also has considerable swelling of the feet and legs and has difficulty walking. She has ask for a power mobility chair but after many physical therapy sessions was still refused a referral to get a chair that she desperately needs. They say in "My opinion" you do not qualify for a power wheel chair. She is 75 years old, has had several strokes, has days when she can barely get out of her recliner to go to the bathroom, but in their opionion she does not not qualify for a chair. This place is nothing more than a billing of insurance scam. They have you returning over and over for therapy that is worthless and does nothing to help the patient, bills the hell out of their insurance and will never make a way for you to re gain your mobility. She could buy one out of pocket buy why should she be forced to do this when she has medical insurance that would pay for a mobility chair? This is not patient care this is an Insurance fraud. Places like this should be investigated and changes made that will insure that people that need help actually get the help and the medical items that they need. I, as her friend, intend to write to the AMA and the governor's office about this situation and see if there is some thing that I can do to change this and help her to get the mobility chair that she desperately needs. Their "opinion" isn't worth squat when someone is suffering and all they are doing is billing, and billing and billing her insurance for unnecessary therapy that is not helping her at all. Her Doctor, Melissa Bell at the Aspirus clinic said that the therapy place has to give the recommendation so she (doctor) and write the prescription so she can get the power chair. The physical therapy said they do not give recommendations, so who is lying?
