Hi everyone, I’m a female in my late twenties, not pregnant, and I live near Bowling Green, Ohio (Wood County). I’m on Buckeye Health Plan and have been with them for about 3 years. Overall, it’s been fine. I like their 24/7 nurse line, free dental coverage, and that they cover out-of-state ER visits. I travel a lot to Florida, so that’s been very helpful. That said, I’ve noticed some limitations, especially when it comes to finding mental health providers. Another limitation is medication coverage; sometimes, even when the generic version is unavailable, it’s still difficult to get the brand-name approved. I’m considering switching to a Medicaid plan that offers more options and benefits, especially in case I face bigger health issues like surgery or serious illness. From my research, CareSource, AmeriHealth Caritas, and Humana Healthy Horizons seem to have the best options. I also like when plans are good with technology and keep their websites up to date. The problem is, after searching Reddit and reading different posts, the opinions are all over the place. Finding a provider is not a problem, and I’ve already read what each plan offers. They all seem good, so that didn’t help narrow it down. I just don’t want to switch and then be stuck with a plan I don’t like for another year. I’d really appreciate hearing from anyone who has experience with these plans and could recommend a good option.

Hi, I just wanted to share my experience with Lemonade after having gone through cancer with my recently passed kitty, Tortilla, who was 6 years old both when we bought her plan and at the time of her passing. She had large cell GI lymphoma that suddenly appeared in early May. I got her plan (premium preventative care package, 100k spending limit, 90% reimbursement with $250 deductible, end of life coverage, dental disease coverage, vet visit fees). We had over 7K in vet bills, but lemonade actually covered around at least 6K I believe. I actually only got her a plan because one I somehow had a horrible feeling something terrible would happen to her (I hate and am grateful that I planned for that but I wish I had for no reason) and two because we had adopted a dog (her name is Lexie) who we bought insurance for too late and she had a million pre-existing conditions that basically rendered nothing covered for her. We wound up going the palliative care route, and unfortunately we didnt get much time I believe not even a month passed before she left us after her diagnosis. But, the bright side of this horrible experience was we were not saddled with thousands in debt since my family and I are not doing so well financially this year. They covered 6K of the treatment and diagnosis bills, and completely covered end of life fees and memorial items. I am so grateful I decided to buy her plan. Now, the negatives. Tortilla worked out great since she didn’t have a history of illness till the cancer and only had preventative vet visits in that history with no illnesses popping up. I will say, though, the approval waiting period was insanely long. Took like more than 2 weeks for reimbursement, but they did approve us for a crazy amount (at least to me). So if that’s important to anyone, keep in mind the bigger value claims take a longer time to get approved. With my dog Lexie, however, this did not work out as well… As a first time dog owner, I did not realize how many health issues a dog could have. My cat Tortilla came first, I’d had her for nearly 4 years (adopted her in Sept. 2020) at the time of getting my dog (April 2024). Tortilla was always healthy and vibrant, and while I wish I would have been more proactive with vet visits, I can’t change anything now. So, my mom and I decided to hold off on getting pet insurance for the first few months. Horrible mistake. My dog happened to have basically a weak weak stomach and everlasting GI issues causing behavioral issues (from pain) that are still unresolved to this day. She’s been in and out of 6 vets with over 13 visits since last year. I was only 19 during this and had no idea what to do and neither the idea to get pet insurance since I was so overwhelmed, and most of it fell on me since my family wanted to keep Lexie and I also didn’t have the heart to give her back to her rescue. So, I fought hard to get her diagnosed and treated, which I’m still fighting to today. But, now my mom and I have spent probably over 5K on her vet bills too (on top of Tortilla’s). I might as well have lit the money on fire that’s how helpful everything has been. So finally we got her insurance in early September, only after having her behavioral issues diagnosed. This was a horrible mistake on my end because now nothing was covered. So, long story short Lexie saw a million different vets (including a vet behaviorist) and absolutely everything I filed for was pre-existing and none of that 5K is covered. I don’t think this is all Lemonade’s fault or anything of the sort, it’s just an unfortunate situation because I was misguided and overwhelmed back then by both Lexie being a young puppy with behavioral issues and GI issues. Overall, I honestly would recommend Lemonade for anyone signing up a new, young pet or even an older pet with no pre-existing conditions. I’m not sure if I would recommend it over others, like PetsBest or Trupanion (although I have been seeing some pretty insane price spikes for others from Trupanion). I’m still weary but since they were so helpful with Tortilla (even if it took a bit) I decided to stick with them and signed up my two new kittens we adopted before she passed and made sure to sign them up early (3 weeks after adoption). I also would say a positive was how easy it was to file claims and speak with your claim rep. I don’t really like talking over the phone, so it was nice just talking via email, text, and the support center. It was also a very smooth process to file the claims, since everything is just in the app and you can customize the types of procedures and costs you’re inputting (there’s options to put general diseases already in their database while filing a claim but you can add custom text which I found helpful). So yeah. I honestly don’t know if the grass is greener for other companies, but I feel like most insurance companies are not exactly looking out for the pet or even human as their priority, and I feel Lemonade isn’t too too much like that. Hope this was helpful for anyone that read through all of it, thank you!! TLDR: Lemonade was very helpful for my cat with no illness history that contracted sudden cancer (reimbursed over 5K-6K). Not so helpful for my dog as she had pre-existing conditions so nothing was covered, but if anything new pops up it should be OK (she’s still a young dog). App is very navigable and easy to use, claim support staff is helpful and friendly, larger bill claims can take awhile to process though (took 2-3 weeks for Tortilla’s bills). Can’t really do phone calls, but I did prefer the email and text system (personally).

I have a BCBS of Illinois community health plan, and I've been looking to find a dermatologist that's in network and when I go on the website look under the "in network" tab, everyone I call says they do not accept my insurence. This isn't the first time I've dealt with this either... Even when I call and get a list from that it's the same story. Am I doing something wrong? By the sounds of it a lot of the offices I call make it seem like they asked to be removed from these lists and never were.

Hello. Hoping someone can provide some advice on my next steps. The short version: I bought my house in 2016, at that time State Farm determined my house to be 5000 sq ft., it’s actually 2500 sq ft. Due to them thinking my house was twice the size my annual premiums were higher than they should be. This all came to light this week. My 2025 premium is now $600 less than originally charged. My agent is aware and admitted the mistake but has also told me there’s nothing they can do to recalculate the historical values of my house with the correct square footage. Do I have any recourse to get refunded for the past years I’ve paid the incorrect amount?

My stepdad passed away mid march, he told me years ago if anything ever happened to him that he had life insurance. The past week ive been trying to figure out his policy number to get more information regarding all of this. I still don’t know his policy # but now have a claim number and they have emailed a document that I need to sign. In order to access those documents I need a “code” which is the date of birth/date of death, unfortunately the first agent got the date of death wrong so I got locked out, they had to resend it again. Today I finally receive the email again, I STILL cannot access it because they keep putting in the wrong date.

Recently my father passed away. I’m his only child and there was no will, however, I moved out a few years ago and my mom lived there with him even though they’re divorced. I never probated the house or got it put in my name so I’m sure that will be an issue later if I did want to file a claim through State Farm later on. What I need to know is if I should file a claim or fix it out of pocket? My mom has let the house go in a pretty terrible way. Before my dad passed it wasn’t great. The floor was bubbled up in some places and sunken in others. When the upstairs toilet overflowed the chandelier fell off the ceiling in the kitchen. He filed a claim through State Farm once in 20 years to get new carpet but it did not fix the underlying problem. Now there’s holes in the ceiling, in the floor, in the walls. And there’s rats. You sit on the couch and you can hear them scratching in the walls and running through the house. The back deck has unattached itself from the house and is falling apart. I feel so bad for my mom and I don’t even know what the problem is much less how to begin to fix it or who to call. Please please any kind of advice would help. Edit: I think that the holes and the problems with the floor being sunken and swollen are from some kind of leak?? Maybe under the house but I’m not sure. I know insurance won’t get rid of rats or anything like that. I just wanted to know if the other stuff was able to be claimed had it been a result of something else like a leak.

Aside from the appalling over 100% premium increase in my renewal this year because my dog turned 10, I've noticed two new things in my Fetch policy. If you have more than 50 claims they can remove discounts and lower coverage. I always knew if you had a lot of claims it would cost you BUT how is the 50 counted? Every prescription claim counts? My dog gets 4 prescriptions a month, some only 10 bucks but it might increase my plans because of the number 50?? Next is the sublimit on prescriptions. Shouldn't be surprised when I saw them add their own pharmacy option. So if you use their preferred pharmacy that's waived. Great. But 2 of my dogs prescriptions are compounded eye drops and not available on their site. Nothing I can do about that? Has anyone ran into issues with these two new policy changes? Mostly worried about the claim one. I probably submit 4 to 5 a month of just meds. I used to put them all in one claim once a month but they kept messing up that way 🙄

My ex cancelled my elderly chihuahuas health insurance (the anger I’m feeling is palpable in other countries). I have a 13yr old chihuahua Peanut 🐶He was covered by Trupanion for the last 6yrs or so until my ex let the insurance lapse last month without telling me. I tried to reinstate but Trupanion said I missed the 3 day period. Peanut has lots of existing conditions (galloping heart, epilepsy, pre-kidney disease) that without reinstating Trupanion won’t be covered and someone even mentioned he may be uninsurable, like some places won’t even accept him at all. I’m very panicked. Does anyone have any advice on getting a policy reinstated?

Location: Virginia I use Choice Home Warranty (I didn’t realize how scammy home warranty companies were until recently, so please don’t comment about that). They are requiring I pay a portion of a repair because it’s considered a “modification.” I pointed out that my particular policy covers up to $250 of modifications, and they are saying that that $250 was applied to a previous repair and no longer available. However they will not provide me any written documentation or the recording of the phone call where they stated this. Do I essentially just have to trust them, or are they required to provide proof?

I might get flooded with 100 "No, why didn't you read the policy language" comments, but it's worth a shot! My partner and I have been with Trupanion for four years, and we have a love-hate relationship with it. (But it feels like that's common for most pet insurance providers -as with insurance in general). We have been fortunate to gain more financial stability in the past year and decided we wanted to add "Recovery Care" to our plan. This would raise our monthly premium from $145 to $190, but we decided it was worth it. However, when we reached out to Trupanion via online chat to add this coverage, they let us know that they have a policy that you cannot modify your policy \~at all\~ after 30 days of joining said policy. This is wild to me because financial circumstances change, and...why would they not want to get more money? Now I'm seriously considering changing providers. My question, before "jumping ship" from Trupanion is: has anyone gotten them to waiver on this policy? I'm also going to call their customer service line to see if I'd get more traction there compared to the online chat, but I thought I'd ask here too.