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POSTED: | BY: Kathy Ek
Sad experience...lesson learned
My cat Lucy 10 yrs old had to have emergency surgery to remove her right eye on 8/13/24. After being told the surgery needed to be done immediately I called ASPCA pet insurance at 4:00 that afternoon. Having read the claim form there is a place you can check "to pay the vet". That meant to me ASPCA would do a pre-certification. While speaking to an agent named "Bunny" I was told how to fill out the claim form and send an estimate from the vet to an email address. After waiting for three hours I called back only to be told by a supervisor that pre-certifications cannot be approved after 5:00 pm!! It was now 7:00!! Finally after three hours of crying the Vet offered me a payment plan if I put down $1000 which I did. I called today 8/26/24 to followup on the claim. I stated I had final actual numbers to report. Spoke to Michael and after a very long conversation he said he would cancel the old claim and I should start a new one. I went to my online account and saw that the claim had been denied due to a pre-existing condition. It was not the old condition of the eye that caused the need for removal it was an accident to the cornea! What I cannot understand is why I was not told of the decision not to process the claim AND being told to submit new documents when the claim was DONE!! Needless to say I will never buy pet insurance again I will save that money to pay for future care for Lucy!!
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