Don't guess what your insurance company will and will not cover. You have to just try and go for it.
hernia and reconstructive surgery should be covered. Your belly button is the anchor to your stomach. I lost mine several years ago from an umbilical hernia and following tissue damage from cellulitus and I am about a month out for the surgery to have mine repaired with a diastasis repair. ( I was previously denied by insurance twice over three years before final approval). But living without that core anchor and the muscles surrounding it, there is nothing to hold your stomach to you and that physical sensation is just dreadful and there is nothing you can physically do to correct that feeling with out the option of surgery. No one with an original belly button could ever understand that statement. But living without one makes for many physical limitations and effects. For those of you that mock the idea try jumping or running without a belly button, not to mention how people look at you at the poolside, or if you spread the fear of panic into a child if they were to see the scar, like would their belly button get sick and have to be removed also. Anyway I will get off my belly button soap box for now.
It really sounds like you have been to hell and back with your post surgery stomach. I truely wish you a healthy recovery. Don't give up, or just roll over and quit on the idea of insurance coverage. Keep all your appointments and
keep writing letters to the insurance company. The truth is on your side and you have the evidence in photo's and medical records to prove it. Self doubt and past history are not good enough reasons not to fight for a better you. You will get better, just commit to yourself that you won't give up.
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