Frustrated!

Oxford/United HealthCare denied my request to receive Remicade in my home through a home infusion agency because I am "not homebound and therefore can continue to receive Remicade in my providers office". So now I have 2 choices for my appeal ...1 find someone out there who is an Oxford/United HealthCare customer who is not homebound and receives Remicade from a home infusion agency and as such would set the precedent for my appeal or 2 see what they say if I switch to a provider who is not equipped to provide Remicade infusions in their office.

Anyone out there with suggestions or experience on how to handle this?

I have a new boss as of July 1 and she is giving me a hard time about everything. My co-worker works until 4pm and I went to the restroom after she left the other day. When I came back I was told that I should use the restroom before she leaves because I need to be at my desk until I leave at 5pm. If I need to take time from the office for my crohns treatments I either have to use half a vacation day or get docked half a days pay. Neither option is appealing (sp) and I'm not allowed to make up the time during the rest of the week. My doctors office doesn't make remicade appointments after 2:30pm M-W.

I'm looking for a new job as soon as I get back from vacation in October. Hopefully the stock market will calm down by then as I work for an investment bank and would like to remain in one. I am also the victim of a double standard as my co-worker who has an 18th month old daughter never has to use vacation time or get docked pay the numerous times that she leaves in the middle the day to take the kid to the doctor. I should also mention that I've been with the company almost 10 years and my junior co-worker has only been there 6 months.

Hi Jodi, Your boss can not tell you when you can use the bathroom. Thats being unfair.

I have a doctors note on file plus a letter from my old boss detailing the allowances that he made for me due to crohns.

Gail - I already met with HR and was told that Crohns is not really considered a disability and that while they understand that Randy made allowances for me, that he even met with HR and Liz (new boss) to inform them that he allows me to leave early with no penalty to go for treatments or work from home if I'm not able to ride the subway for 1 1/2 hrs into work, that Randy is gone and they are not honoring these allowances. HR just suggested that I file for FMLA since I maxed out my sick days. My HR dept. is awful. They won't put anything in writing, if you email them a question they call you with the answer. We are allowed 10 sick days and last year I used 25. When I surpassed 10 Randy and I were told that any more than 10 is at managers discretion. Now that Randy's gone I was told 10 max and up to 11 at managers discretion, but none of this is written anywhere.