SANO Orthopedics
Musculoskeletal Injuries and Ailments
Thanks for your interest in your district’s Orthopedic Program. We are partnering with Sano Orthopedics to provide great care with an extra financial benefit to you at no additional expense to you.
What you need to know:
- Should you need to have a covered musculoskeletal procedure performed, you may be eligible for $1,500 benefit paid directly to you when you use Sano Orthopedics as your healthcare provider.
- The choice of providers within the network is always yours. Sano is one of your options for your orthopedic care within all of our plans.
- The $1,500 direct payment for covered orthopedic hospitalization procedures is yours to use as you choose: copays, deductibles, or any related expenses.
Covered Orthopedic Hospitalizations Include:
- Shoulder, elbow, wrist, knee, hip or ankle replacement
- Shoulder, knee or hip arthroscopic surgery
- Spine surgeries including: discectomy, disc replacement, laminectomy
- Fracture care
- Repair of tendons and ligaments
- Inpatient Orthopedic Hospitalization
Non-covered Orthopedic Hospitalizations Include:
- ER and Urgent Care visits
- Carpal Tunnel
- Physical Therapy
- Rehabilitation
- Regenerative Medicine
- Diagnostic Imaging including Needle Imaging
- Sano Vascular and Vein Care
Additional Questions:
For more information, call our concierge, Courtney at (816) 874-3379 or go to www.sanokc.com.
IVX Health Infusion Center
Why Choose IVX Health?
- Closer to Home: Conveniently located to save you travel time
- Specialized Care: Dedicated exclusively to infusion treatments
- Flexible Hours: Open 6 days a week, from 7 am to 7 pm
- No Changes Needed: Continue with your current doctor and prescription.
Covered Infusions Include Treatment For:
- Multiple Sclerosis
- Crohn's Disease
- Rheumatoid Arthritis
- Ulcerative Colitis
Advanced Multiple Sclerosis:
Multiple Sclerosis means definite multiple sclerosis. Both of the following two (2) criteria must be present:
- There must be permanent functional neurological impairment with objective evidence of motor or sensory dysfunction, which must have persisted for a continuous period of at least 180 days.
- The diagnosis must also be confirmed with objective neurological investigations, such as lumbar puncture, evoked visual responses, evoked auditory responses and MRI evidence of lesions of the central nervous system.
Severe Autoimmune Disease:
Severe Autoimmune Disease means any named disorder, unless otherwise excluded, in which loss of function or destruction of normal tissue arises from humoral or cellular immune responses to the body's own tissue constituents that persists for at least 180 days. Autoimmune Disease includes, but is not limited to, myasthenia gravis, systemic lupus erythematosus, rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis, ulcerative colitis, Crohn's disease, scleroderma, Addison's disease, ankylosing spondylitis, dermatomyositis, polymyositis, sarcoidosis.
Severe Autoimmune Disease is characterized by at least one of the following conditions:
- Joint erosions, bony deformity, or joint fusion
- Permanent diffuse skin thickening (beyond face and fingers)
- Permanent (non-skin) organ damage or organ failure (e.g., intestine, pancreas, kidney, lung, heart, bone marrow).
- Permanent neurological deficit
Autoimmune Disease does not include:
- Activation of autoimmune mechanisms in patients with Cancer
- Activation of autoimmune mechanisms in patients with an active infection
- Activation of autoimmune mechanisms secondary to use of a drug
- Osteoarthritis
- Eczema and other non-autoimmune skin conditions
- Autoimmune thyroid disease (e.g., Graves and Hashimoto's)
- Diabetes (Type I and Type II)
- Primary immunodeficiency
- Organ damage or failure not due to Autoimmune Disease
- Organ damage or failure due to Autoimmune disease that is not permanent.