Insurance question, and the plan document contradicts what the counter told me.
Portal exports often carry the numbers and not the notes, and the notes are where the reasoning is.
A clinician note carries more weight in the record than a patient request, so ask them to write it.
Ask for the refusal to be noted in the record. It changes the next conversation more than any argument.
One page of history, printed and handed over at the start. They read faster than you can talk.
Has anyone got this through on appeal, and what did the letter actually say?
Personal experience, labelled as such, is exactly right here. Nobody is prescribing. Same for me with a medication list, unfortunately.
Careful with attribution. You changed the timing, the dose and the season. That is three variables.
The pain score conversation is thirty seconds of my life I will never get back, every time. Same for me with a medication list, unfortunately.
Following this because I am in the same place and have no idea what to ask at the appointment.
Function over score.
Half of what people describe as tolerance is a change in the underlying condition, and the two need different answers.
Interdose restlessness is distinct from the original symptom and worth naming separately.
My pharmacist has become my actual doctor and I am at peace with it.
My pharmacist has become my actual doctor and I am at peace with it.
Function over score.
Print the page.