{"id":290,"date":"2020-08-14T17:40:41","date_gmt":"2020-08-14T17:40:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/12uh.com\/lipoforlipedemareimbursement\/?p=290"},"modified":"2020-09-25T11:30:49","modified_gmt":"2020-09-25T11:30:49","slug":"should-i-hire-a-patient-advocate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/12uh.com\/lipoforlipedemareimbursement\/should-i-hire-a-patient-advocate\/","title":{"rendered":"Should I hire a patient advocate?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A patient advocate assists with getting a patient paid on difficult or unusual cases. Liposuction for Lipedema fits this category well&#8211;some are paid with little effort while others may take multiple appeals. While there are numerous consumer\/patient medical reimbursement advocates there are few who are familiar with liposuction for lipedema. I have currently invested hundreds of hours into this project and I&#8217;m learning new things every day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My feedback is that the time necessary to do the job well is more than most advocates can perform within a reasonable rate. Some of the tasks are time-intensive and the best strategy is to learn the steps yourself and work them. For an experienced advocate to perform all the tasks, the fee would need to be $1,000 or more. One advocate currently offers access to a wealth of checklists and templates for a fee of $750. But the hand-holding and specific actions are limited&#8211;due to the factors I&#8217;ve just mentioned. A patient advocate can be helpful, but there is no guarantee, it could be costly, and you will still need to ensure a lot of tasks are performed yourself. Since this website is funded by a vendor, everything is provided for free&#8211;you can use the information and copy-and-paste any of the information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> Here are a list of questions you should ask before hiring an patient advocate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>How many liposuction for lipedema cases have you worked?<\/li><li>How many have you won?<\/li><li>Do you submit the Single Case Agreement or do I?<\/li><li>Do you send or fax the necessary documents?<\/li><li>Ask for references.<\/li><li>Ask your surgeon if they will work with the specific advocate; some will not (important).<\/li><li>Is there any guarantee or time limitations to their service?<\/li><li>What is your background in reimbursement?<\/li><li>Review their information and website.<\/li><li>On the lost cases what were the main reasons?<\/li><li>What were your highest number of appeals or longest case? (the higher and longer the better. It means they are persistent).<\/li><li>What specific tasks will the advocate perform, the clinic perform and you perform?<\/li><li>Ask them a few questions from my TODO checklist and compare their answers.<\/li><li>Ask them for a TODO checklist; compare their checklist to mine.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A patient advocate assists with getting a patient paid on difficult or unusual cases. Liposuction for Lipedema fits this category well&#8211;some are paid with little effort while others may take multiple appeals. While there are numerous consumer\/patient medical reimbursement advocates there are few who are familiar with liposuction for lipedema&#8230;. <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/12uh.com\/lipoforlipedemareimbursement\/should-i-hire-a-patient-advocate\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reimbursement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/12uh.com\/lipoforlipedemareimbursement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/12uh.com\/lipoforlipedemareimbursement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/12uh.com\/lipoforlipedemareimbursement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/12uh.com\/lipoforlipedemareimbursement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/12uh.com\/lipoforlipedemareimbursement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/12uh.com\/lipoforlipedemareimbursement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":331,"href":"https:\/\/12uh.com\/lipoforlipedemareimbursement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions\/331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/12uh.com\/lipoforlipedemareimbursement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/12uh.com\/lipoforlipedemareimbursement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/12uh.com\/lipoforlipedemareimbursement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}