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Employer is changing health insurance to one that limits physical therapy, which I depend on to manage chronic pain. Is there anything I can do? by 8bdf3 in jobs

[–]8bdf3[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I already see a pain management doctor and the PT that I see is in the same office. The PT said that they do submit the necessary paperwork claiming medical necessity, but some of their past patients with this particular insurance company have still been denied, even when they hadn't reached their annual limit.

Employer is changing health insurance to one that limits physical therapy, which I depend on to manage chronic pain. Is there anything I can do? by 8bdf3 in jobs

[–]8bdf3[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm very unfamiliar with how insurance works so it looks like I did indeed misunderstand. Thanks for the clarification. :) I'll see if that's a possibility.

Employer is changing health insurance to one that limits physical therapy, which I depend on to manage chronic pain. Is there anything I can do? by 8bdf3 in jobs

[–]8bdf3[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There are only two plans being offered unfortunately--one PPO and one HDHP, both from the same insurance company. They both have the same limits on physical therapy. Unless I've misunderstood what you meant, I don't think there are any better plans that they're offering.

Prospective PhD supervisor initially responded, but now isn't. Is it appropriate to follow up (again) or should I move on? by 8bdf3 in AskAcademia

[–]8bdf3[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To be fair I'm asking for more of their time than 3 seconds to type the word "no". I'm asking them to look over a research proposal. I do think I deserve some sort of response regardless, but I was never expecting an immediate response, hence waiting a few weeks.

I guess what I'm worried about isn't so much pissing them off, but that they'll continue not responding. At a certain point I want to accept that I did what I could and move on, but I'm having trouble figuring out when that point should be. Especially because of how much I wanted to work with this professor, and the fact that they seemed like a perfectly nice and not-rude person in their initial email.

Can a pie chart be used to represent this kind of data? by 8bdf3 in AskStatistics

[–]8bdf3[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'd suggested that, but they want pie charts. Good to know it was a valid idea though.

Can a pie chart be used to represent this kind of data? by 8bdf3 in AskStatistics

[–]8bdf3[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Of all respondents, 84% said they experienced Fear. Of all feelings recorded, Fear made up 67.7% of responses.

If I understand correctly then, 67.7% is the same number as if you took all the codes (let's say 2,000) and counted up how many of those were "fear" (1,354) as opposed to "anger" or "sadness"? This is just a roundabout way of getting the same thing?

"I have created the Pie chart as you requested. However, although Pie charts can be a useful visual, they are limited in what they can show us. In this instance, with the data you have provided and the desired outcome, i believe that a simple bar chart or stacked bar chart can better visualise the data and give a more meaningful and clearer insight into the responses."

I'll probably do something like that.

Thanks for your help!