Transportation Trouble

@DichotomousDetia

It seems like so many disability services have added hoops and barriers when we need have trouble as it is.

I can understand why you would be stressed and scared.

If you're open to some suggestions - can you or a friend call and get a further extension? Can you share a copy of what you already have and see if they will just accept that (I assume a nurse has some sort of license number, even if not an NPI). Or maybe a friend or someone at the shelter can help you connect online to a doctor who is willing to help with the form for free (if allowed, I don't know the rules).

I hope getting it sorted isn't incredibly difficult and that you can stay safe.

@AffyAvo

Thankfully my therapist had an NPI.

I'm pretty short on helpful friends currently and this extension is as far as the services want to go. I've asked for a variety of accommodations and they say because they're federally funded they NEED the NPI for when they get audited so they won't take it without an NPI doesn't matter what I write. Cause anyone can write things down on paper I guess, that was one of the things they said which sounded ignorant to me. Had a major life-change and had a lot of enablers and untrustworthy people who did not respect my boundaries. I have one friend in the country and area I'm in that I could trust for anything like that.

The homeless shelter didn't have a dr and the nurse on the phone told me she has no NPI and never has needed to use one.

So thankfully I was able to send the form my therapist filled out. I just have to wait now for a reply and hope that it's valid to the services.

the panic I had after the nurse called to say she doesn't have an NPI and never needed one before really put me in a panic. I'm feeling a bit better now. Time is ticking though.

They only approved me for medical transportation because of how I wrote out my paperwork the first time. I'm hoping maybe the subsequent versions I wrote for professional verification makes it obvious I would also benefit from grocery trips. I didn't know I had to specify if I needed a ride to very specific places because there's nothing on the paperwork that asks "will you use this for medical appointments, grocery trips, visiting a friend?"

@DichotomousDetia

Also connecting online to a doctor, to be seen by a doctor, for a doctor to put their NPI on anything in the USA you need insurance, doctors can't do that without risking losing their license. I found a doctor who supposedly takes my insurance in the area. In the United States you can't see a doctor out-of-state and the wait-lists are currently long in my area because we have limited doctors.

Doctor's are licensed state by state, so if they don't have licensing for the state I'm in I can't see them.

Many doctors won't do a first-meeting or 'intake' session without insurance and will not do it through telehealth(online).