• ChaosCoati
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    4 hours ago

    My spouse had their lung collapse. Insurance denied it because we didn’t get advance approval for their lung to collapse.

    • spirinolas@lemmy.world
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      22 minutes ago

      This is scary, as an European. I had my left lung collapse too. Two years later my right one. After that I had to have surgery on my right lung (Pleural Abrasion) and a few months of physiotherapy after that. I also had a yearly appointment with a Pneumology MD for 5 years to follow the development of the lung until it was all fine.

      How much did I pay? You guessed it…zero. Now I wonder how much would that set me back in the US with or without insurance.