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EEOICPA Health Advantages

<p><img class&equals;"size-full wp-image-4164 alignleft" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;medusamagazine&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2018&sol;10&sol;6&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"299" height&equals;"202" &sol;><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>When it comes to EEOICPA health advantages&comma; many beneficiaries get puzzled about the services the Department of Labor &lpar;DOL&rpar; will and would not pay for&period; Let me try and clear up some of this worry&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The medical advantages accessible to living workers are commonly the same under both Part E and Part B of the program&period; Anyway&comma; the DOL will pay for the services explained by a treating physician&period; Additional&comma; the treating physician must give proof that the prescribed service is for treatment of a approved sickness&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>For now&comma; here is a list of some of the medical advantages accessible to former employees approved under EEOICPA with United Energy Workers Healthcare help&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Medical advantages list<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<ul>&NewLine;<li>Vehicle modifications<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>Durable medical equipment<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>Home healthcare<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>Oxygen supplies<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>Doctor Copays<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>Prescription drugs<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>Extended care facilities<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>Assisted living<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>Nursing home<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>Stem &amp&semi; organ cell transport<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>Hospice care<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>Medical alert system<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>Extended care facilities<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>Home exercise equipment<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>Chiropractic services<&sol;li>&NewLine;<&sol;ul>&NewLine;<p><strong>What costs are exactly covered&quest;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>To understand which medical costs are covered we need to know the definition of an &&num;8220&semi;Accepted&&num;8221&semi; sickness&period; An accepted sickness is the situation by list on your EEOICPA claim&period; For example&comma; if you are filling a Part B claim for chronic beryllium disease&comma; this disease would be your accepted sickness&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Once the claim has been filed and verified by the Department of Labor&comma; medical bills matched to situation will be reimbursable&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The DOL will just for treatment directly matched to an accepted sickness&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>For example&comma; if you have verified for pancreatic cancer under EEOICPA&comma; any treatment matched to pancreatic cancer can be billed to the Department of Labor by the medical supplier&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Anyway&comma; let&&num;8217&semi;s say you have diabetes and a portion of your visit with a physician was in regards to treating your diabetes&period; Since you have not had a claim verified for diabetes&comma; it is not accepted sickness and the DOL would not pay for any treatment related to diabetes&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>What is a consequential sickness&quest;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Many employees do not realize that medicals situations or complications as an outcome of an accepted diagnosis can be included to their medical card&period; These situations are considered a consequence of your accepted sickness and can therefore be covered&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Consequential situations are largely expand medical coverage and support workers to get the <strong>United Energy Workers Healthcare <&sol;strong>they need&period; There are actually four different ways for a situation to be considered consequential&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Four types of consequential sickness<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<ul>&NewLine;<li>Metalized cancer &&num;8211&semi; any secondary cancer that produces from the initial cancer site conditions outcome from medical treatment of the accepted sickness &&num;8211&semi; such as cataracts caused by chemotherapy&period;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>Independent incidents matched to an accepted situation such as traffic accident injury while traveling for treatment of an accepted situation<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>Natural development or progression such as beryllium sensitivity developing into chronic beryllium disease&period;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<&sol;ul>&NewLine;<p>Psychological situations outcome from treatment can also sometimes be included as consequential sickness&period; The department of labor explicitly states&comma; anyway&comma; physiological situations must be attached to the accepted situation by the attending physician and a Board-certified psychologist&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>To add a consequential sickness to your medical card you will need to file a fresh claim with the Department of Labor&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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