Hi Sandy, I am sorry to hear about your insurance dismissing the ketamine infusions. The lower dose infusions are now considered a treatment and is no longer experimental. I blue cross will pay for it, thats what I have as well as some of my friends and they pay every penny of it. I am not sure about other insurance companies whether they will pay for it or not, but I think they should as it is now approved by the FDA. I have been really lucky with my insurances both medicare and blue cross, without them we would be so broke by now. In all of just the past 2 years blue cross payed over 800,000 dollars in treatments, hospital stays, and air ambulances.

I hope by appealing it they will wake up and understand that this treatment could be the answer for a better life with less pain. What we told my insurance company was the ketamine infusions are cheap to getting SCS, and pump which costed me any where from 40,000 to 65,000 and it needs replacing like every five years. Then like me without the ketamine I am in hospitals sometimes lasting 3 weeks at a time which of course costs big time to, so giving me the ketamine keeps me from going in and out of hospitals and ER's. So in the long run it really is cheaper doing ketamine and helps so much better. I only wished I had done it sooner.

Do you have the dates yet for the infusions? I would love to meet you in person. I am having my surgery on the 29th and 30th of this month, but hopefully we will cross paths. I will be crossing my fingers that your insurance will take the appeal seriously and pay for the treatments.

Hugs!
Sam