https://lindanee.wordpress.com/2015/07/22/daily-buzz-16/
Claimants have been contacting me to report Unum’s denials of CFS and FMS claims. It’s the same old Unum story of not wanting to pay for “self-reported” impairments by denying claims outright, or limiting benefits to 24 months. I refer claimants to their policies to check out actual “self-reported” language or exclusions policies might have specifically for CFS and FMS.
Ten years ago FMS patients were treated with morphine pumps. At the same time Unum’s “Fibromyalgia White Paper” suggests that if FMS patients would only “get up on a treadmill” all would be well and healed. In the meantime, Unum’s UK physicians are engaging in research to eliminate CFS and ME from Britain’s welfare program where claims also remained unpaid.
In America, the American Psychological Association published the new DSM-5 describing both CFS and FMS as “somatic” mental illnesses that are all “in one’s head.” Clearly, the insurance industry has established a prejudicial view challenging CFS and FMS as credible causes of disability. The industry won’t pay, and that’s not likely to change.
Recently Web MD published several articles referenced on this blog giving credibility to CFS as a physical disease. Nevertheless, Unum and several other insurers are refusing to pay long-term (if at all) for CFS and FMS…