Fun, someone said the words “prior authorizations” around me and now I’m pissed off at 730am on my day off. I go off on this rant all the time. ALL THE TIME.
Oof. This man gets it.
Every time I have to send a fax to a doctor saying “hey this med needs a PA” I get violently angry.
Hint: if your PA gets denied call your insurance and ask for the credentials of the person who made that call. Usually they will approve it instead of admitting they hired some 18-year-old with no relevant training or experience to scan for buzz-words and just deny everything
If you get denied, appeal. It’s within your rights and if the appeal is overturned, you will be approved. It happens enough that it’s worth the effort. Sometimes it’s just a phone call.
propublica made this helpful tool: Find out why your health insurer denied your claim.
The guy in this TikTok is both an MD and a young cancer survivor who also survived a heart attack, so he knows ALLLLLLL about medical billing and insurance. which is why he virulently despises them. He has a lot of very approachable explainers about medical insurance and all the places it is skimming money off patients while also not paying doctors.
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