Growing Medical Bills

[edtremblay]

Hi I'm new here trying to figure out how things work so please try to bear with me . I'm a 56 year old male Army Vietnam vet with stage 4 lung cancer. I've applied for and been granted ssdi but will not receive anything until September. My VA claim is pending and that looks several months away at a minimum the bills for Chemo and Radiation add up fast and while I have health insurance there is alot unpaid does anyone know if there will be any payment of these treatments from the VA once I'm rated??? Does anyone have any resources for litigation against the manufacturers of agent orange and the other herbicides that are causing all the problems??? This is an awesome site and I'm glad to have found it I'm proud to be a member thanks in advance for any help anyone can provide.

Sincerely Ed Tremblay

and thank you to all who have already helped and will consider helping wow what a family

[free_spirit_etc]

Oh..by the way..I am wishing you much luck and success in your battle against the cancer - and your battle with the VA. B)

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Jangrin thanks aqgain for your assistance I goyt that info about IRIS and emailed them today my head is swimming from all the acronyms but I'm going slow and learing alot this is the most informativem, friendly, helpful, curtious, and just plain awesome site I've evere been lucky enough to stumble into... Thank you all .I've found a home!!!!

[free_spirit_etc]

Ed -

You can also ask for the companies to waive your co-pays. We didn't have to do that with my husband's chemo and radiation - because Tri-Care covered them well. But when did when he needed the home medical equipment. We got doctors orders for LOTS of stuff - but he had me call and ask if they could waive the co-pay. At first I was told they couldn't - but then we talked to the finance office - because the company kept calling wanting to deliver equipment - and we only let them send what we absolutely needed and couldn't borrow - because those 20% co-pays add up fast.

They HAVE to charge a co-pay UNLESS they give you a waiver - with a financial statement on file. but the financial statement just asked "What do you make?" What do you spend on --and it listed about 10 things and "Other".

Totally simple form.

I went by and turned it in - and the finance manager came down a couple of minutes later and told me we were approved for the waiver.

In the case of the equipment - they weren't making anything on what we didn't get - so they were pretty motivated to work with us.

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Hi I'm new here trying to figure out how things work so please try to bear with me . I'm a 56 year old male Army Vietnam vet with stage 4 lung cancer. I've applied for and been granted ssdi but will not receive anything until September. My VA claim is pending and that looks several months away at a minimum the bills for Chemo and Radiation add up fast and while I have health insurance there is alot unpaid does anyone know if there will be any payment of these treatments from the VA once I'm rated??? Does anyone have any resources for litigation against the manufacturers of agent orange and the other herbicides that are causing all the problems??? This is an awesome site and I'm glad to have found it I'm proud to be a member thanks in advance for any help anyone can provide.

Sincerely Ed Tremblay

and thank you to all who have already helped and will consider helping wow what a family

[free_spirit_etc]

Is the delay in SSDI payments until September because of your 6 months waiting period? They were able to count months my husband made below the substantial gainful amount as waiting months - though he was still employed. Though I think this might have had something to do with him being declared "terminal" as his cancer had spread to his aorta. If they determine your condition will probably result in your death - then you don't have to prove you can't work.

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[edtremblay]

the ssdi regs here require 5 month wait for ssdi B)

Is the delay in SSDI payments un

ttil September because of your 6 months waiting period? They were able to count months my husband made below the substantial gainful amount as waiting months - though he was still employed. Though I think this might have had something to do with him being declared "terminal" as his cancer had spread to his aorta. If they determine your condition will probably result in your death - then you don't have to prove you can't work.

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[free_spirit_etc]

So five month waiting and benefits the 6th month. But they can also go back up to one year from the time you filed the claim - if you can show you HAVE been disabled.

I think my husband filed in May 06 - But they were able to take his claim back to August 05 (he was earning too much before then) and count those as waiting months - so he got benefits from January 06. They processed his claim pretty quickly - and he went to the bank one day and found out he had over $7,000 extra in the bank. He got his approval letter the NEXT week.

He was finally able to retire his car that had 249,000 miles on it.

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the ssdi regs here require 5 month wait for ssdi B)

[edtremblay]

Perhaps if I had had some symptoms that might have worked but I was working 10 hours a day driving another three and I felt like a million dollars all I had was a lump on my neck the treatments have nearly killed me lol