Medicaid specifically stated that they denied my implant request because I could communicate via speech (and with the "must have no means of communicating" clause in place, boom immediate denial for me). But hopefully with my message, and with Advanced Bionics doing my appeal, they'll somehow get their guidelines straightened out. Rest of the implant guidelines is right on, just the no communicating bit that does not fit the rest of the guidelines.
and I'm aware there'll be multiple trips to the audiologist. You're lucky it's only 2 hours, for me it'd be 6 hours to the CI center, then 6 hours back. Hm yeah that'll be fun to deal with haha. Hopefully my current job will be understanding and flexible once I do actually get the implant. Only time will tell I suppose. Once I know of how the appeal turned out, and I definitely am able to get the implant, then I'll start working things out with my supervisor.
