BAHA Repair

Ok, Molly's BAHA is off for repair.  I actually bought the Silver service plan which give us one year of repairs, and one scheduled maintenance cleaning all for $495.  That's what I was expecting to pay just to do a one time repair.

We're anticipating Molly getting atresia repair and BAHA implants combined in the next 4-6 months so at least we will have one of her BAHAs covered until then.

MedPor Reconstruction with Dr Reinisch

Dr. John Reinisch performs his Medpor plastic surgery on a little boy from Ireland born with Microtia with amazing results.

The TV is too loud!

Aside from the issue with both of Molly's BAHAs not functioning, we have a little girl who is now requesting to use them.  She hasn't really cared for them too much for various reasons.  But now I think something has shifted in her and she wants them, mainly during TV/Movie watching.  So now she is requesting to turn the TV up way too loud so that she can hear it.  Plug your fingers in your ears solidly and that is a fairly good approximation of what she hears.  It's about a 30-40dB conductive hearing loss with your fingers in your ears.

I think I'm going to try and get her some headphones, either wired or wireless and have her use those until we can get the BAHA fixed.  Even after the BAHA is fixed, this should be a good compromise when she gets tired of the BAHA and just wants to watch a movie, or use the computer.

Atresia Repair

I received a email reply from Cheryl today regarding our out of network insurance battle with Aetna.  She will ask Dr Roberson to craft a letter to Aetna so that they may see the light in respect to allowing us to go out of network instead an in network hack. :)

BAHA damaged

Molly came home from school yesterday with her BAHA not functioning.  I can her it making some noise and slight feedback but it is not transmitting to the post at all.  I'm thinking it's moisture related so I have it sitting in the jar of stuff that came with it to try and remove the moisture.

She has two BAHA Divinos.  Her first one is also damaged, the post connecting it to the softband has a tiny piece broke off and the battery door has a piece of plastic broke.  So now she is without any assistance at all.  We're going to bite the bullet and send the first one off for repair, $495 flat fee to fix.  Yikes.

Hopefully I can revive the second one myself.  We can't afford to fix two right now.

BAHA Billing Codes

For future reference, BAHA Insurance Billing Codes

Dr Cravens

Erin received a call from Dr Cravens office (Mollly's ENT) and they refer to Dr Roberson!  Woo-hoo!  Doesn't change anything about needing an out of network authorization, but it will certainly help to have a specialist recommend Roberson over some in-network doctor.