RE: [odspfireside: 48237 ] Special Diet Form - where is it?

[Denny B.]

Hi Mel dear, Denny here, in Ottawa.

The best answer i know of to this question is to call you case worker and request the form mailed to you, or go and pick it up. Take it to your doctor and go over it, making sure that once it is filled out you need to see what has been out into it, make it right before they send it back to ODSP, AFTER ALL YOU ARE paying for it out of pocket.

your friend, Denny, Ottawa

Denny - Ottawa, Ontario
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Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2012 04:36:15 -0700
From: melani...@yahoo.ca

Where is the Special Diet form online or do I have to get one mailed to me from the ODSP office?

I cannot find it anywhere online.

As well, if the Community Start Up Allowance is being cancelled at the end of this year, will there be a mass request of funds from people?  I really don't think this is fair.  If my washer, dryer or furnace breaks, how will I get help?  Is this really going to happen?  So people will be stuck in bad apartments, sharing situations and appliances will just break or bed bugs will infest with no solution?

Obviously, charities cannot pick up the slack.  It's not only ODSPers that are in need, it's everyone else who is suffering.

Melanie

[VICKY SWERBRICK]

you have to get the special diet from odsp and get your dr. to fill out not your family dr. from a dietion or who ever told you get the special diet from
 

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Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2012 04:36:15 -0700
From: melani...@yahoo.ca

To: odspfi...@googlegroups.com
Subject: [odspfireside: 48237 ] Special Diet Form - where is it?

Where is the Special Diet form online or do I have to get one mailed to me from the ODSP office?

I cannot find it anywhere online.

As well, if the Community Start Up Allowance is being cancelled at the end of this year, will there be a mass request of funds from people?  I really don't think this is fair.  If my washer, dryer or furnace breaks, how will I get help?  Is this really going to happen?  So people will be stuck in bad apartments, sharing situations and appliances will just break or bed bugs will infest with no solution?

Obviously, charities cannot pick up the slack.  It's not only ODSPers that are in need, it's everyone else who is suffering.

Melanie

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[justice4odsp]

Hi,

Someone said the other day they were charged $15 to fill out the Special Diet form.  I was pretty sure that billing was incorrect, so I finally found time to look it up. I was right.

Read this link: http://www.mcss.gov.on.ca/en/mcss/programs/social/special_diet_health_care.aspx, specifically (this part, I'll copy below):

Form Completion Fee

• The form completion fee is $20.
• Physicians completing the SDA application form can continue to use OHIP billing code K055.
• Other approved health care professionals who complete the SDA application form can continue to submit an invoice in the amount of $20 to the appropriate local Ontario Works or ODSP office.
• There is no fee paid by applicants.

justice4odsp

[justice4odsp]

My GP earns almost $289,000, according to the Sunshine list, and she's worth every penny. She's salaried instead of paid per patient, so she has time to read the chart, read the medical test reports that come back, do appropriate follow up, etc. This thoroughness means she's not wasting the time of the client or herself. She's very productive. She has a network of other professionals (social workers, occupational therapists, nurse practitioners, dieticians, etc) and she uses them wisely.

In other medical clinics the average appointment lasts 15 minutes, charts weren't read, things weren't followed up on, and because they were a health care team network, you rarely saw the same doctor twice. In one of my former medical clinics, staff were set up to knock on the door when the 15 minutes were up. The appointment would abruptly end, even if the doctor hadn't completed the job, and I'd be told to make another appointment so they could complete the job they had started.

When you have a disability and you're being seen in a clinic where the health care team, not just one doctor, treats you, it can lead to trouble, misunderstandings, and misdiagnoses.  I'm just so glad to be with a doctor who carries the ball from beginning to end, and is so thorough.

I have no problem with her being getting paid what she does because, in the end, she's saving the health care system a bundle.  No more do I have to attend weekly appointments. No more does it take 3 months to identify and then treat a bladder infection. No more do I have to keep reminding my doctor's clinic to make the referrals they said they were going to make for various and sundry things.  I rarely have to see the doctor anymore because things are followed up on and I'm finally a lot more healthy.

justice4odsp

On 12/09/2012 8:14 PM, Hope wrote:

Thanks Denny.  I called her today.  Yup, everything costs now.  A Doctor is so hard pressed to sign a form yet most earn (GP) above $125,000.00 a year, specialist about $225,000.00 a year.

Melanie

[Goldielover]

I thought they said they were charged $15.00 to have a letter written
about needing a new bed, not the Special Diet form.

On Sep 13, 8:06 am, justice4odsp <justice4o...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> Someone said the other day they were charged $15 to fill out the Special Diet form.  I was pretty sure that billing was incorrect, so I finally found time to look it up. I was right.

> Read this link:http://www.mcss.gov.on.ca/en/mcss/programs/social/special_diet_health_care.aspx, specifically (this part, I'll copy below):Form Completion FeeThe form completion fee is $20.Physicians completing the SDA application form can continue to use OHIP billing code K055.Other approved health care professionals who complete the SDA application form can continue to submit an invoice in the amount of $20 to the appropriate local Ontario Works or ODSP office.There is no fee paid by applicants.justice4odsp