I have gone back-and-forth contemplating on leaving this review or not however, I decided after thinking what our family went through I'd never want someone else to have to go through what we did. My son was born early at 37 weeks. At two weeks old, he got a little congested. We weren't really that concerned at first fast-forward a few days New Year's Eve and he was diagnosed with Covid. Later that night due to his oxygen and face turning gray/purple we took him to the ER near our house and were later taken by ambulance and admitted to Ogden regional pediatrics unit at 19 days old due to his oxygen dropping. We spent two days in the hospital and were told we would be able to be released but our son would have to go home on oxygen as his little body just wasn't able to keep up his oxygen saturation on his own. The day we were set to be released on Jan 2nd, the doctor advised us that as soon as the oxygen company delivered us a tank to be able to get our son home we could be released to go home and get back to our 5 year old daughter as well. A social worker from the hospital contacted us to let us know that she had set up the oxygen through Alpine as she had spoken with our insurance and they would cover it through Alpine and that she had set it up through them.
I first received a phone call on Thursday Jan 2nd from a male at Alpine who initially seemed bothered that he had to help me but I let it go and just figured he was probably having a bad day or I was just being more sensitive and emotional as my newborn was going through so much, and I was only a few weeks post partum. While on the phone with him, he told me that he couldn't verify our insurance so we would have to pay out of pocket, I asked him to double check the information as our insurance was who referred us to them so there shouldn't be an issue and he said he would have to call me back after trying to contact the insurance. While I waited for him to call back, I reached out to the social worker again and let her know what I was told by alpine just to ensure she had verified our insurance and she confirmed and said she would reach out to alpine again. The gentleman with Alpine then called me back still sounding irritated and rude and advised me that because the insurance wasn't showing valid on my newborn we would have to pay up front but failed to help me to understand, I then asked if there was someone else who could help me because of the way he was talking to me, he then changed his tone and said "there must be a misunderstanding" I asked again if I could speak with someone else. I was then placed on hold for a minute and another male came to the phone and this time was very helpful in explaining that because the insurance on our son was "pending" (more than likely because he was just born a few weeks earlier) that we would have to pay half up front for the home oxygen concentrator machine and we could get it back once the insurance took care of it, he was very nice and apologized and explained what I was trying to understand from the last person who didn't seem to care about treating people with kindness. A few hours later alpine arrived to our hospital room with a small portable tank and told us to call the number on the bag of the tank as soon as we got home and they would deliver the home oxygen concentrator. We arrived home about an hour or so later, I called right when we walked in the door as we aren't familiar with how oxygen works and wanted to get our son set up right away! I was told that they didn't have the right equipment and they would have to deliver it to us the next morning, I asked the person on the phone if the small tank we were sent home with would last as our newborn son was continuous oxygen. They assured me that with the amount our son was on that the small tank would most definitely last overnight and should actually last over 30 hours. They promised me this was the case, we went to bed that night and after waking up I noticed our son seemed a little off, but seemed to be doing okay. I looked at the tank and it showed completely empty, in a panic I called to see if the delivery driver was close so we could get another tank or if we needed to take our son back to the hospital, the woman I spoke to continued to put me on hold and told me "that would only happen if you left the tank on", I told her well of course I left the tank on, my son has to be on it all of the time!!! She said the driver was 20 minutes out and looking at my son I knew we had to go straight back to the emergency room. We rushed him back to ogden regional where they hooked him up in triage and his 02 showed to be in the 70's, the triage nurse grabbed my son so fast and rushed him back into a room where our small 8 pound baby was surrounded by 7 or more doctors and nurses. Seeing this and going through this is something I would never wish on anyone!!! The pediatric doctor came into the ER a bit later after they had our sons oxygen back up and stab read more