Posted on 05/10/2011 10:47:05 AM PDT by Gum Shoe
My doc’s been using computers in the exam room for years. Keeps all the info there as well. Nothing new.
Not in Idaho. They've outlawed it as toxic medicine.
Did you read the rest of the article?
My doctor has been doing everything on his computer for a year or so at least. He faxes the prescriptions to the pharmacy for my mom and then we go pick them up about an hour later. So far Medicare has not turned down any of her prescriptions.
So it's off the emergency room for everything where the co-pay is 50 to 150 per visit. The saving grace is that you are usually at the ER long enough to pick a second language or two.
Of course doctors have been using regular computers for years. According to this article it wasn't just a computer
It's a computer designed to allow intergration to the new health care system.
If you read the article you will see that it was likely because of the computer that the woman's prescription was denied.
Hey, they weren’t so blatant as to ask for your party card comrade. That will be coming as they integrate health care records with watch lists for groups such as Free Republic and some get more favored treatment than others.
In the article it was the insurance companies that were turning down the prescriptions.
Whem my insurance tried over-riding the doc’s scrip, I called them direct.
“No! The “generic” will NOT do! It’s garbage and doesn’t work! I’ve been taking the original of 10 years and it works! The last time you pretended you were a doc and slipped me the generic, my symptoms returned for the first time in 10 years. I realize the crap is cheaper! That’s usually how it is with crap that doesn’t work! Now, get back on the original!”
The larger physician practices owned by hospitals have the new computer systems linked to the hospital’s computers. If youhave ever been registered at the hospital your doc works for, your records are integrated. They are NOT linked to the government....yet.
Insurance companies do have preferred drug lists called formularies that save them money. If the doc writes a script for a name brand when a generic is available, the insurance will request the generic. I’m not really sure the insurance companies have the right to absolutley override the doctor though. The doc can call the insurance company and discuss it with them, but your script will not be ready in 15 minutes.
So did you get the med that works?
The original post has really nothing to do with Obamacare per se.
Denies of medicines not on insurance company’s formularies has been a tactic / cost savings tool they’ve used for years. The use of EMRs or electronic medical records were well underway before Obamacare was wretchedly born.
So although this particular situation is non-obmacare related, I can expaound on future scenarios stemming from Obamacare that will occur.
Next thing you know, they’ll advise a 3 word advance care directive: Just Shoot Me.
Find out before writing an article. How else could you blame this on Obamacare?
My doctor will not write out a prescription anymore. It’s all done on computer.
The insurance companies often refuse to approve payment for certain drugs when they believe a generic or different drug will do. To get the drug the doctor wants you to take he or she has to submit a valid reason. My wife was given another drug that didn’t work. We no longer have insurance so now we’ll go to Mexico and buy whatever the hell we want. That is until the government makes it illegal to go to Mexico.
It is not the insurance company who is doing this. Ultimately, because of all of the new requirements imposed on the insurance companies by Obamacare, the only way to make themselves profitable is by denying coverage to those deemed of “less value” or likely to cost more in the future. “Death Panels”, as you may. The insurance companies HAVE to do this to pay for all of the “freebies” imposed by Obamacare.
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