by coverlipedema.com | Jan 15, 2024 | Coverlipedema.com, Updates
2023 was Coverlipedema.com’s fifth year of advocating for women with lipedema to have safe, effective, and fully covered lipedema surgery. As we look over our accomplishments for the year, we are optimistic about the future of lipedema surgery. The past year has...
by coverlipedema.com | Dec 7, 2023 | Coverlipedema.com, Insurance Companies, Legal
The settlement of the lawsuit against UnitedHealthcare (Mary Caldwell et al. vs UnitedHealthcare et al.) was finally approved after four years. We attended the settlement conference and provided testimony on November 28 in San Francisco. We were advocating on behalf...
by coverlipedema.com | Jul 19, 2023 | Choosing a Surgeon, Coverage, Insurance, Lipedema Misinformation, Safety
Unintended Consequences In social sciences, unintended consequences describe the outcomes of actions that were not intended or foreseen. Sometimes these unintended consequences are helpful. However, sometimes they are harmful, as in the case of the article...
by coverlipedema.com | Jul 6, 2023 | Choosing a Surgeon, Lipedema Misinformation
We have been around in the lipedema community since 2018 and have seen Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, etc. explode with lipedema content. While social media has allowed women to learn they have lipedema, we hope that someday women learn about the disease from their...
by coverlipedema.com | Jul 6, 2023 | Diagnosis, Finding Clinicians
When Coverlipedema started working with lipedema in 2018, we only knew three doctors in the country diagnosing lipedema. Women would wait years for an appointment, spend thousands traveling across the country and get a minimal exam and diagnosis. Today, Coverlipedema...