Update 6/30:
Hospital has signed her discharge papers but nowhere to send my mother. Aetna is only approving SNF with 2.5 or below for-profit facilities. Most of which after contacting are unable to accommodate my mother on ventilator, trach, Peg-tube, and now a pressure ulcer that is 10x10 or 8x8 on her lower back moving down her thighs. Eschar still on the wound and no debridement has been done. A cream is being applied to remove the eschar. Hospital is stating sore unclassified. My mother is a diabetic and prone to infections. We have no idea when this sore started as no one mentioned it to us before 6/24 and we witnessed the wound firsthand. My mother has lost all her progress! She is unable to write on a whiteboard to communicate with us, she is too weak to sit in a chair, and she is unable to move any of her limbs. Up until May 26th, she was exceeding expectations and destroying every challenge set before her. Only 11 or 12 days in a SNF approved by Aetna has set her back to day one. Insurance will not approve any of our claims or appeals to send her to a long-term acute hospital where she will be able to get the treatment she desperately needs. Most of the approved places who stated they would accept her, when contacted with all of her medical and care needed, they state that they are unable to accommodate her. So, these places are not being told the full extent of my mother's needs and Aetna is only looking at for profit facilities. Every single facility that my father and I have researched and personally reached out to that will be able to adequately treat and heal my mother, Aetna has denied. Today, discharge papers were signed by Washington Hospital with a pressure ulcer present, and Aetna has cut off insurance funding.
Insurance companies are not God, Judge, or Jury. They do not get to decide who lives and who dies based off the money that can line their pockets. My mother matters, you matter, our loved one's matter.
Don't wait until this is you, a loved one, or someone you care about. Do not put your loved ones though the heartache and pain of having to fight an uphill battle with no care from any of these people. My mother deserves better; we deserve better!