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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Nothing stops you from buying that particular anti-biotic with YOUR OWN MONEY.
The article was written by a zombie.
Insurance companies denying to pay for prescriptions is nothing new. It first happened to me 7 years ago. Since then, it happens every year or so. My options are to pay for it out of pocket, ask the physician to substitute something else, or ask him to go to bat for me. I’ve done some of each depending on how badly I need the medication and its cost.
I’d guess your physician prescribed a newer drug that is costly and that’s why the insurance company balked. I have a condition that is best treated with an off-label drug (which also happens to be expensive) and my insurance won’t pay for it. New drugs are expensive. Friends in the pharmaceutical industry say it’s to do with patent length and the cost of new drug development. But that opens a new can of worms.
Nationalized health care is like public schools. Parents think they are great until they have a child who does not fit into the medium.
National health care will take great care of the healthy and abuse the hell out of the sick and handicapped.