someone explain Canada to me like I have not read a paper in years
Slightly embarrassed to be asking this, but: someone explain Canada to me like I have not read a paper in years. Confused a rejected claim with a denied authorization for a month and pursued entirely the wrong process. Cash pricing, which people skip because they assume coverage is the only route. Prices at the…
Nothing here is medical or legal advice. The pharmacist and the prescriber are the people who can act, and both are faster than a forum.
Correction: that is regulatory approval, not coverage. They are separate decisions by separate bodies.
Correction: that is regulatory approval, not coverage.
Disagreeing with this line: that is an employer plan process and the provincial one differs.
I would not read one pharmacy’s cash price as the going rate. The spread is real.
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Same view — private and provincial plans are genuinely different processes with different appeal routes.
compare cash prices before assuming coverage is the only path