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c/insurancefights·posted 8 months ago by u/marisol_moreau

external review is the most under-discussed thing in c/glp1muscle

Template Slow Clap ×6 Receipts ×2 Clean Column ×1

Week 78 update. 19kg down from the start, early fullness basically gone since about week 23.

Things that worked: consistency, protein at breakfast, walking more than I want to. Things that did not: everything I bought on the internet to help with early fullness.

The part that surprised me is how much of this is admin. Ordering, storing, logging, remembering. Nobody mentions that the hard bit is not the drug, it is the routine.

Happy to answer anything. Please do not ask me what dose you should be on.

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u/kasper_cabrera441 points·8 months ago

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

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u/marisol_moreauOP634 points·8 months ago

Which plan type? copay is different.

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u/ferritin_low195 points·8 months ago

Did you get step therapy or outright denial?

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u/plain_titration_202485 points·8 months ago·edited

say which country and which plan type

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u/muscle_cramp_mo68 points·8 months ago

Small correction: the trial was 4 weeks, not 23. Does not change your point but people will quote it.

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u/saskia_lokken159 points·8 months ago·edited

resubmission after denial requires new documentation

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u/dose_diary_danalog keeper303 points·8 months ago

External review overturned the denial. Took 10 weeks but the process exists.

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u/marisol_moreauOP208 points·8 months ago

do not suggest misrepresenting a diagnosis, that is fraud

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u/ines_krastev169 points·8 months ago·edited

I am going to push back on this slightly.

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u/rekha_vestergaard215 points·8 months ago
no
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u/maren_ibarra149 points·8 months ago

do not suggest misrepresenting a diagnosis, that is fraud

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u/sofia_ferreira72 points·8 months ago

I am going to push back on this slightly.

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u/ahmed_abubakar105 points·8 months ago

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

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u/teodor_duarte38 points·8 months ago

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

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u/tomas_lehtinen48 points·8 months ago·edited

denial reason codes matter, ask for the actual code

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u/saskia_lokken143 points·8 months ago

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

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u/cardio_endpoint_c99 points·8 months ago

redact member ids and group numbers from every screenshot

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u/prior_auth_painMOD50 points·8 months ago·edited

Removed a chain here. The rule is one line long and it is not negotiable.

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u/marisol_moreauOP54 points·8 months ago

the carve-out clause varies by employer

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u/ines_krastev30 points·8 months ago

appeal letter templates are in the wiki

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u/bence_zielinski74 points·8 months ago

New Zealand plan: step therapy required 18 medications first. Did them all, got approval. The order matters.

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u/teodor_duarte31 points·8 months ago

step therapy documentation is the weapon, use it

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u/ismael_nwosu23 points·8 months ago

You have restated the marketing copy. What is the actual substance here.

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u/peak_area_peteanalytical7 points·8 months ago

say which country and which plan type

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u/neha_erdogan13 points·8 months ago

This is correct. Appeal letters work.

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u/tidy_vialdrawer_watch16 points·8 months ago

appeal letter templates are in the wiki

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[removed]9 points·8 months ago

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u/ireland_drugs_pay38 points·8 months ago·edited

say which country and which plan type

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u/curious_panel_only26 points·8 months ago

This is correct. Appeal letters work.

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u/dose_diary_danalog keeper12 points·8 months ago

This is correct.

Counter-anecdote: opposite result, same dose. Which mostly tells us the variance is huge.

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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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