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I'm Unable To Receive A Treatment For My Disability. Can I Get Legal Counsel For This?

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Location: Colorado

About 2 days ago, after almost a year of waiting, I was finally scheduled for an appointment with my Neurologist for botox treatment to treat my vestibular migraines. My neurologist believes that botox treatment would greatly improve my ability to function in my day to day life.

Today I found out that the speciality pharmacy is out of network for botox. There are no in network specialty pharmacies with this insurance. The health insurance's solution was to do a buy back with my clinicians office so that I could get treatment, but my clinicians office said they are too small to do a buy back, and therefore have no way to treat me.

I had given up Medicaid in order to get this treatment from them. (My neurologist's clinician told me they wouldn't be able to treat me with Botox if I had Medicaid as a secondary insurance, and that Medicaid alone would also not cover it) I've accured heavy medical debt and lost my vestibular PT all to try to get this one treatment. They referred me to another neurologist who could do the treatment, but they won't even be able to see me for a consultation until August, and by that point my health insurance will renew and I'll have to start this process all over. I've basically just been told that instead of starting treatment next week, I'll have to wait another year.

I want to start legal processings at this point. I'm wondering if there's anything that can be done. I have not been depressed in this manner for a long time. Thank you for reading

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