Follow-up on prior authorizations for medication prescriptions:

[Aristus]

As far as I'm concerned, the form for prior authorizations should come with a single check-box.

And that check-box should say: "BECAUSE I SAID SO!"

[Maraya1969]

1. I had to pay my scumbag doctor $35 to get one and then it took them a week

to get it to the pharmacy. There is corruption going on all around.

[davsand]

2. Insurance companies practicing medicine without a license.

I've actually made that argument a couple of times when it came to prescriptions. Some poor bean counter in a maze of cubicles is second guessing a trained medical professional with in person exposure to the patient. Pisses me off bigly, and I can't imagine the medically trained folks care for it too much either.




Laura

[Aristus]

3. A lot of insurance companies have MD's on staff.

But as far as I'm concerned, they break their oath by working to ensure profit for the company instead of a favorable clinical outcome for the patient.