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All Credit Card charges will appear as Tamed Mane for your privacy.  Packages will ship from Tamed Mane. ( *In order to comply with PayPal’s best practices standards, all orders placed using PayPal will be captured within 24-48 hours from the order placement.)

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Money Orders

For your convenience, we also accept cashier's checks and money orders.

No personal checks, please.

Money gram/Western union (not at this moment)

 

Send Payments / Make payable to :

 Tamed Mane LLC

PO BOX

Fultondale, Al 35064

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FINANCING OPTIONS

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PRIVATE HEALTH INSURANCE

Are you experiencing temporary or permanent hair loss from illness or genetics? Very few people know this, but when you lose your hair due to medical reasons such as chemotherapy, alopecia, trichotillomania, or other medical conditions, you can file an insurance claim to receive a partial or full cost of your cranial prosthesis (medical term for WIG). The term, cranial prosthesis, is used when applying for medical insurance or tax deduction status. Other common terms for a wig used for medical purposes include: full cranial prosthesis, hair prosthesis, cranial hair prosthesis, extra-cranial prosthesis.

For medical hair loss, you may obtain payment for the full cranial prosthesis. Depending on your policy, some insurance companies will require you to pay upfront and then be reimbursed, others will pay for your prosthesis upfront.

 

Most insurance companies will cover between 80-100% of the cost for your full cranial prosthesis and will allow you to receive one cranial prosthesis per year for medical hair loss. Depending on your insurance, your prosthesis may also be a tax deductible medical expense. We confirmed with an insurance representatives that if a person's medical bills are over 7.5% of their income, then the wig would become tax deductible. However, the individual should discuss this with their tax advisor first.

 

Through research, we discovered that in default policies there is no coverage for wigs as they are part of the Standard List of Exclusions. However, you can contact your employer's HR department or your insurance broker to renegotiate your insurance contract to include your cranial prosthesis coverage.

 

 

Most Types of Medical Hair Loss Covered By Insurance

• Alopecia Hair Loss

• Chemotherapy Related Hair Loss

• Radiation Related Hair Loss

• Thyroid Related Hair Loss

• Kidney Related Hair Loss

• Cancer Related Hair Loss

• Medical Hair Loss Due to Genetics, Stress, Reaction to Medical Illness, Life and Environmental Changes, Aging, Thinning, and/or Balding

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Steps You Should Take

Step 1: Contact your Health Insurance Provider's Benefits Services and ask:

• If your policy covers a cranial prosthesis

• If yes, what type of cranial prosthesis is covered (i.e. synthetic wigs, human hair wigs, etc.)

• How much of the cost will they cover

• What specific terminology they need to have on the prescription for a wig

• What specific documentation they need to submit your claim.

Note: If you are reviewing your insurance policy and do not see cranial prosthesis listed, this does not automatically mean that you don’t have coverage. We highly recommend calling your Health Insurance Provider and getting pre-authorization.

 

Step 2: Request and obtain a prescription

• Request and obtain a prescription for a “cranial prosthesis” (or the specific terminology required by you Health Insurance Provider) from your doctor or physician including the medical procedure code A9282. Make sure the prescription does not say “wig.” A wig is a fashion item and is therefore not medically necessary. Your prescription will include a procedure number/code for your cranial prosthesis that will be used to submit your insurance claim. 

• Add an extra touch: Ask your physician to also write a letter explaining hair loss and its effects and have her/him state that it is not simply for cosmetic reasons but for emotional well being.

• Keep copies of all of your documentation and invoices from your physician for tax exemption purposes. You will need to your tax advisor first about medical bills and tax deductible opportunities. 

• If you are planning on paying upfront or out of pocket initially, place your order online at Wigs.com or over the phone at 1-800-581-2001.

• Once you place your order with Iwanttamedman.com, email sales: gettamedmane@gmail.com with your order number and say that you need a copy of your invoice for your cranial prosthesis prescription.

• We will provide you with a copy of your invoice with a notation on the bottom that states Cranial Prosthesis and Wigs.com’s Tax ID number.

• Send all documentation (your doctor’s prescription, copy of your invoice from Iwanttamedmane.com, completed insurance claim form, and any other necessary forms) to your Health Insurance Provider.

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Step 3: If Your Insurance Won't Help Cover the Cost of Your Wig

Option 1: When paying for your wig out of pocket, save the receipt just in case your purchase qualifies as a tax deduction. If a person's medical bills are over 7.5% of their income, then the wig would become tax deductible.

 

Option 2: Talk with your doctor or social worker about local resources! Contact your local chapter of the American Cancer Society, National Alopecia Areata Foundation (NAAF), and other foundations about qualifying for financial assistance toward the purchase of a hair piece or wig.

 

Insurance Companies and Their Cranial Prosthesis Coverage:

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Blue Cross Blue Shield

Blue Cross Blue Shield does not cover wigs as a cranial prosthesis for group and individual insurance plans.

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Aetna

Aetna's group medical insurance plan does not cover wigs as a cranial prosthetic. However, individuals should verify with Aetna that the individual plan they are on will cover this item or not. 

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United Healthcare

United Healthcare does not cover cranial prosthesis under group medical insurance plans. However, individuals should verify with United Healthcare that the individual plan they are on will cover this item or not. 

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Medicare

Medicare will not pay for a cranial prosthetic wig even if the claim is filed under durable medical equipment. This means that anyone over 65 years old that has a medicare advantage plan or a medicare supplement plan, these plans will not pay for a wig. This has been confirmed by a Medicare Representative.

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Humana 

Humana does not cover cranial prosthesis under their group insurance plans.

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Cigna *

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TriCare *

*awaiting verification

 

 

FINANCIAL ASSITANCE

Please visit Resources page for Financial Assistance information. GO HERE

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TAX REBATE/PURCHASE REIMBURSEMENT

 

Under the ATO taxation ruling TR93/34 you may be eligible for an income tax rebate on the purchase of your medical wig. .

“Medical or surgical wigs for use by a person which is necessitated by loss of hair through sickness or disease (other than naturally occurring baldness) or the effects of the treatment of sickness or disease”

Ruling TR93/34 is as per below:
1. This Ruling explains the meaning of a 'medical or surgical appliance'
in paragraph (f) of the definition of 'medical expenses' in subsection
159P(4) of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936.

2. Section 159P allows a rebate for net medical expenses exceeding $1,000.
Net medical expenses includes payments for a 'medical or surgical
appliance' prescribed by a legally qualified medical practitioner.

​For further information it is best to contact your accountant on how to claim your tax rebate.