I’m 19 so I basically have no idea what I’m doing when dealing with insurance/healthcare issues since up until now my parents did it for me. Just wanna put that out there before I get into my issue.
To make a really long and convoluted story short, my current HMO (Amerigroup), and my doctor’s office/practice, are having a credentialing issue that prevents my doctor from being my PCP even though he was my PCP literally a few weeks ago before they auto-assigned a new one with no warning. It’s been a few weeks of trying to get this fixed, and despite having a few genuinely helpful Member Services people try to help me, I’ve basically given up on having this fixed in any timely manner. None of the workarounds Member Services have tried have actually worked, and my doctor’s office has no timeline on a fix thus far.
I’m trying to keep my current doctor because it’s the most convenient and sensible option, as we’re currently trying to treat one health issue, and trying to get updated testing on another separate issue to begin treating that as well. I however, could not care less about keeping Amerigroup as my HMO, as I didn’t even really choose them in the first place. Since I’m outside of the 90-day window where I can easily change HMOs, I’m wondering if switching to another HMO would be an option here? I realize it’ll take 30 days, but I’m currently betting that that’ll get resolved before the credentialing issue does.
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I’m 19 so I basically have no idea what I’m doing when dealing with insurance/healthcare issues since up until now my parents did it for me. Just wanna put that out there before I get into my issue. To make a really long and convoluted story short, my current HMO (Amerigroup), and my doctor’s office/practice, are having a credentialing issue that prevents my doctor from being my PCP even though he was my PCP literally a few weeks ago before they auto-assigned a new one with no warning. It’s been a few weeks of trying to get this fixed, and despite having a few genuinely helpful Member Services people try to help me, I’ve basically given up on having this fixed in any timely manner. None of the workarounds Member Services have tried have actually worked, and my doctor’s office has no timeline on a fix thus far. I’m trying to keep my current doctor because it’s the most convenient and sensible option, as we’re currently trying to treat one health issue, and trying to get updated testing on another separate issue to begin treating that as well. I however, could not care less about keeping Amerigroup as my HMO, as I didn’t even really choose them in the first place. Since I’m outside of the 90-day window where I can easily change HMOs, I’m wondering if switching to another HMO would be an option here? I realize it’ll take 30 days, but I’m currently betting that that’ll get resolved before the credentialing issue does.
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