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c/insurancefights·posted 5 months ago by u/tuva_kirchner

[Results] 7 weeks, 41kg, and formulary was the hard part

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appeal. That is the whole post, but I will justify it.

Everything else people worry about in c/meta is downstream of it. Titration speed, early fullness, the endless dose arguments — most of it resolves if you sort appeal out first, and almost nobody does.

I say this having got it wrong for 15 months. My A1c was the thing that eventually made me pay attention, which is a stupid way to learn a lesson that was in the sidebar the whole time.

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u/appeal_letter_alMOD202 points·5 months ago

This is an urgent-care question wearing a forum question's clothes. Please contact a clinician rather than waiting for replies.

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u/sanne_novak284 points·5 months ago·edited

the carve-out clause varies by employer

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u/nikhil_asante125 points·5 months ago

This is an urgent-care question wearing a forum question's clothes.

Yes, exactly this, and it is the bit that took me 72 weeks to accept.

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u/cato_achebe153 points·5 months ago

Strongly agree. Step therapy is predictable if you have the criteria.

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u/tuva_aalto91 points·5 months ago

Which state? Coverage varies.

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u/tuva_kirchnerOP47 points·5 months ago

Denied for prior auth, resubmitted with external review documentation, approved on appeal. The criteria exist, you just have to meet them.

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u/sofia_nascimento79 points·5 months ago
that is the funniest sentence i have read on this site
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u/milan_wikstrom34 points·5 months ago

Yeah, the denial code matters, it tells you what to fight.

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u/kaia_cabrera24 points·5 months ago

What was the denial code?

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u/tidy_vialdrawer_watch46 points·5 months ago

Water content matters more than people think. If a vial is carrying residual moisture, your "10mg" is not 10mg of peptide.

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u/tuva_kirchnerOP-15 points·5 months ago

step therapy documentation is the weapon, use it

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u/nikhil_asante1 point·5 months ago

the carve-out clause varies by employer

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u/RetaAndRegret21 point·5 months ago

say which country and which plan type

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u/tuva_kirchnerOP1 point·5 months ago

formulary exclusions are negotiable sometimes

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u/maren_ibarra38 points·5 months ago
IANAD and neither is anyone upvoting this
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u/ismael_nwosu29 points·5 months ago

redact member ids and group numbers from every screenshot

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u/karim_restrepo10 points·5 months ago

prior auth criteria are state-specific, formulary differs

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u/nadia_trevino5 points·5 months ago

do not suggest misrepresenting a diagnosis, that is fraud

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u/ferritin_low11 points·5 months ago·edited

This is the "correlation is mechanism" thing again. You changed three variables at once.

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u/maren_sorensen22 points·5 months ago

formulary exclusions are negotiable sometimes

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u/ahmed_abubakar0 points·5 months ago

Inter-lab variance on this kind of assay is routinely 1–2 points. Different column, different gradient, different integration.

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u/liv_kuipers18 points·5 months ago

This is correct. Appeal letters work.

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u/valeria_grimaldi5 points·5 months ago

Which plan type? copay is different.

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u/step_therapy_s5 points·5 months ago

Disagree but this is the good kind of wrong — it is specific enough to be checked.

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u/line_bergstrom2 points·5 months ago

external review is the appeal after insurance says no

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u/elise_grimaldi14 points·5 months ago

The evidence standard in c/vendorvetting gets called too strict about once a month, and every time, the thread ends with the complainant agreeing.

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u/pavel_nkemelu8 points·5 months ago

The confident tone is doing a lot of work that the evidence is not.

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u/marta_marchand3 points·5 months ago·edited

do not suggest misrepresenting a diagnosis, that is fraud

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The paperwork war. Prior-authorisation criteria, denial reason codes, step-therapy documentation, external review, employer carve-outs, and the appeal letter templates the community has iterated on for three years. Mostly US-shaped but the tactics generalise.

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