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  2. Insurance company halts plan to put time limits on coverage ...

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    After sharp criticism from anesthesiologists, an insurance company is halting its plan to limit the amount time it would cover anesthesia used in surgeries and procedures. Anthem Blue Cross Blue ...

  3. Major Insurer Planned to Limit Time of Anesthesia Coverage ...

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    Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield planned to cap anesthesia coverage in NY, CT, and MO. The American Society of Anesthesiologists called for a reversal.

  4. After uproar, Anthem Blue Cross reversing anesthesia time ...

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    The insurer's new policy could result in denials of coverage to patients who might need more anesthesia because their surgery is difficult or unusual, or if a complication occurs, the group added.

  5. Appendectomy - Wikipedia

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    Recovery time from the operation varies from person to person. Some take up to three weeks before being completely active; for others, it can be a matter of days. In the case of a laparoscopic operation, the patient has three stapled scars of about an inch (2.5 cm) in length, between the navel and pubic hair line.

  6. Cordotomy - Wikipedia

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    Cordotomy is performed as for patients with severe intractable pain, usually but not always due to cancer.Being irreversible and relatively invasive, cordotomy is used exclusively for pain where treatment to level 3 of the World Health Organization pain ladder (i.e., use of major opiates such as morphine) has proved inadequate.

  7. Neurectomy - Wikipedia

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    [20] [21] [23] A double-blind, randomized, controlled surgery trial found a 22% cure rate for the surgery group and a 4% cure rate for the sham surgery group, suggesting that these cure rates cannot be purely attributable to the natural history of the disease or a placebo effect.

  8. "Listen to your body, rest, recover, and if it doesn't go away or you're in pain every time you try a certain activity, you need to be evaluated," says McDermott. Jump on a backyard trampoline

  9. Stapled hemorrhoidopexy - Wikipedia

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    Stapled hemorrhoidopexy is a surgical procedure that involves the cutting and removal of anal hemorrhoidal vascular cushion, whose function is to help to seal stools and create continence. Procedure also removes abnormally enlarged hemorrhoidal tissue , followed by the repositioning of the remaining hemorrhoidal tissue back to its normal ...