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c/insurancefights·posted 9 months ago by u/maren_ibarra

someone explain appeal to me like I have not read a paper in years

Question Long Haul ×9 Cold Box ×1 Clean Column ×1

Genuinely asking, not being difficult.

Everyone in c/glp1muscle repeats that prior authorization is important. I believe it, but I have never seen anyone show why, and when I search I get 21 threads of people agreeing with each other.

Is there a paper? Is there a measurement? Or is this one of those things that is true because it has been repeated since 2023?

I am not trying to be the "source?" guy. I would just like a source.

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u/kian_balogun301 points·9 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/arne_amankwah178 points·9 months ago

This is correct. Appeal letters work.

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u/valeria_grimaldi136 points·9 months ago

Sweden plan: step therapy required 8 medications first. Did them all, got approval. The order matters.

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u/sanne_novak0 points·9 months ago

Disagree. What you are describing is consistent with copay, not with what you concluded.

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u/wholesome_lurker1 point·9 months ago

Which plan type? appeal is different.

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u/kian_ferreira65 points·9 months ago

do not suggest misrepresenting a diagnosis, that is fraud

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u/step_therapy_sMOD108 points·9 months ago

Tracking number removed. It identifies both ends of a shipment.

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[deleted]43 points·9 months ago

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u/coring_the_stopper27 points·9 months ago·edited

This is correct. Appeal letters work.

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u/maren_ibarraOP11 points·9 months ago

resubmission after denial requires new documentation

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u/nnt_nate10 points·9 months ago

Did you get step therapy or outright denial?

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u/adaeze_cabrera19 points·9 months ago

say which country and which plan type

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u/marta_marchand15 points·9 months ago

copay is separate from coverage

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u/oskar_kaufmann13 points·9 months ago

appeal letter templates are in the wiki

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u/maren_ibarraOP5 points·9 months ago

appeal letter templates are in the wiki

Adding to this: step therapy is doing more work than the comment implies.

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u/line_petrov75 points·9 months ago

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

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u/maren_ibarraOP57 points·9 months ago

That is net peptide content, not purity. Different number, different meaning.

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u/hplc_hobbyistruns their own column43 points·9 months ago

That is net peptide content, not purity. Different number, different meaning.

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u/tuva_aalto18 points·9 months ago

Small correction: the trial was 21 weeks, not 13. Does not change your point but people will quote it.

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u/sofia_nascimento-16 points·9 months ago

That is net peptide content, not purity.

Yes, exactly this, and it is the bit that took me 93 weeks to accept.

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u/ferran_batista71 points·9 months ago

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

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u/solene_eriksen42 points·9 months ago

Which state? Coverage varies.

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u/runa_wikstrom39 points·9 months ago

formulary exclusions are negotiable sometimes

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u/sofia_nascimento12 points·9 months ago·edited

formulary exclusions are negotiable sometimes

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

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u/vikram_mbeki33 points·9 months ago

step therapy documentation is the weapon, use it

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u/peak_area_peteanalytical48 points·9 months ago

What was the denial code?

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u/amylin_amyamylin27 points·9 months ago

denial reason codes matter, ask for the actual code

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u/tuva_aalto33 points·9 months ago

Did you get step therapy or outright denial?

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u/hplc_hobbyistruns their own column22 points·9 months ago

The practical rule people converge on is 28 days at fridge temperature after first puncture, and that comes from the preservative, not the peptide.

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u/greta_chukwu9 points·9 months ago

the carve-out clause varies by employer

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