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Lorimae2262 Asked November 2020

Is there help for paying my oxygen bill?

Congestive heart failure & 50% lung failure. Early retired public employee no Medicare for 1 more year. Been on O2 for 11 months and need a little help paying.

JoAnn29 Nov 2020
I agree with Garden Artist. As a public employee, they should have good insurance. Pension too if they worked long enough. Some insurance plans assign a coordinator to each insured person. You can call them and they can help the person find answers.

I would call the office of the doctor who prescribed and ask this question.
worriedinCali Nov 2020
She’s retired and many public employees loose their insurance when they retire. But all unions negotiate for insurance post-retirement. Those employees can keep their insurance if they pay the entire premium which very expensive—in California example it is around $1300 a month for a SINGLE public employee to keep their insurance when they retire.
GardenArtist Nov 2020
Do you have any medical insurance at all through your former employer?   When my sister retired, she transferred to the state employees; retirement medical program.  She also had BCBSM, but I believe it was secondary.

When she passed, she had only one medical bill from her oncologist, who waived it.  The state medical coverage took care of all other bills, and they were significant.

Other potential options:   contact a cardiac organization, your cardiologist or pulmonologist's office, and ask their nurses.   The ones who handle medical insurance are in my experience knowledgable and can offer insight.

Contact the DME supplier; ask to speak with their invoicing department.  Those are the folks who know who gets billed and who pays for their equipment.

Another option is to contact your local Senior Center and ask if there's a social worker.  They often have insights that I wouldn't normally have expected.

Good luck.

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Bridger46146 Nov 2020
Contact your county social services. They may have some ideas.

NeedHelpWithMom Nov 2020
Don’t know the answer but I will bump your question up in order for it to be seen faster and get answers.

Stick around and best wishes to you.

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