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Appeal the denial by calling the insurance co. and request a doctor to appeal on your behalf. Sending the peer reviewed O2 effectiveness studies ( links found by searching for O2 on this site) for your doctor to refer to when appealing the denial will be helpful. This process of persistence took weeks with successful results and Apria finally delivered O2 to my home to be able to battle my upcoming episode.

During this time of distancing, we'd like to offer more to keep us together. Beginning next week and continuing based on demand, please join us on Zoom for one hour support group discussions moderated by Mr. Bob Wold. You will need to sign up here and we will send you a link. Please do not forget to include your email. https://www.signupgenius.com/go/9040b49a8ac23a4ff2-clusterbusters I know this is a rough time for everyone and it's even tougher for those of us that had serious health issues before the lockdown's made things even harder. There has been a noticeable spike in people talking about giving up and a spike in people entering serious cluster cycles that weren't expected. Some of this may be attributed to this crazy weather. Some may be from the added stress and anxiety of these times we live in. If you have zoom set up (or want to set it up) and want to chat with others with clusters, and see some faces, let's talk. Bob

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/185035 Note that O2 is also listed as a #1 treatment for CH in every article or physician's guide to CH treatment (along with triptan injections and nasal sprays).

...absolutely the above....denying O2 prescribed by your physician is practicing w/o a license.....tell 'em you know they are doing that...get your Doc (hopefully a headache specialist) good and pissed and writing a letter on your behalf (same for triptans BTW)...involve your company HR if you are working, and the insurance broker who sold the policy....they have more pull than you...be professional but persistent from these multiple angles. went thru this at least 7 times with ins companies...always got what I needed in the end.....they COUNT on folks giving up...don't be one of those..... edited to add: worth asking your physician to include the word "intractable" in the cluster headache diagnosis discussion...according to one broker...this is a key word. also important that the correct diagnosis codes included in any communication with insurance....am hoping someone can post these as I cannot find at the moment....

It was great, would be cool to do more.

If you do this again, I might try to join. Please let us know if this becomes an option down the road. Thanks.

This is such a great idea. I hope people that need it are making use of the ability to connect with our CH family. Those with CH really need connection and support. Cheers All! J

Keep well Brian !

All the best to BOF ! PF wishes to all forum users in these challenging times.