Your health insurance may offer an allowance that can be used towards wigs and other head covering items such as scarves, cotton sleeping caps, beanies, hats, and wig liners.
My health insurance offered a one time lifetime benefit of $350, so I used every penny of it toward my two wigs, several head scarfs, sleeping beanies (your hairless head will be very cold at night, especially in winter months), hats, and outside winter beanies.
Locate and Read– The Summary of Benefits and Coverage Disclosure from your Health Insurance provider and get familiar with your health coverage and benefits. If you do not have this booklet, call your health insurance provider and request one be mailed to you.
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Check your Summary of Benefits or call your insurance company and ask if your health insurance offers a benefit for “Head Prosthesis” due to medical hair loss. If so, then you can bill the wigs to your insurance.
Ask your insurance company the process you should use to get reimbursed for your wig and head covering purchases (Head Prosthesis), since most wig shops are not set up to bill health insurance companies directly.
I purchased my wig and other head coverings and got a receipt that I could submit to my health insurance company along with the claim form.
Call and request a claim form from your health insurance company and then note on the claim “Hair loss due to chemotherapy”, the billing code I used was #561 (ask your health insurance if this is the correct code that you should use before mailing in your claim form so that there is not a delay in getting reimbursed).
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