I am not allowed to bend my hip more than 90 degrees. Being that we live in a cheap apartment with an equally cheap, low toilet, sitting down on that thing will most definitely bend my hip more than 90 degrees. The raised toilet seat is also recommended in all the pamphlets they give you on "shit you need at home" list. So I had the doctor write me a prescription for the toilet seat and a shower chair. Paper in hand, I waltz right into Alpine Home Medical and asked the Very Friendly Sales Associate to point me in the direction of the "bathroom aides". (The only way to keep myself from being completely embarrassed at being a 30-year-old looking at bathroom aids is to bring some swagger.)
Very Friendly Sales Associate was sorry to inform me that raised toilet seats and bath chairs are not, in fact, covered by my insurance. Even with a prescription. Huh.
So I left without my coveted toilet seat, and called Altius. Turns out that "bathroom aides" are considered "convenience items", and so are not covered. Forget that I wouldn't be able to effectively use the toilet and follow my doctor's instructions without one. She seemed very apologetic, and honestly, arguing with the nice lady in Altius customer service was not going to get the company to pay for my toilet seat.
So now I've been scouring the interwebs for a cheaper raised toilet seat than the one they had on sale at Alpine. So far the pricing is somewhere between $50-$60. This isn't a huge sum of money...hell, I could spend that much money on sushi. But it's the principle that annoys me. I know bitching about the humanity of insurance companies is old news. And if I didn't have insurance, I wouldn't in a million years be able to afford this surgery anyway. But really.
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