requires a lot of patience, flexibility, and persistence., but I’m also a healthcare provider.
Perhaps because of my personal history, I fight hard to get medications covered for my patients. Sometimes it works, and sadly sometimes it does not.Let me give you a personal example: Every year, I need to get prior approvals for all of my medications – also known as jumping through hoops. This process is anything but quick. I have spent eons on the phone with insurance companies since my diagnosis.
But how can we move forward and change this broken system? Not only does it make my job as a healthcare provider demanding, but it causes burnout and exasperation for people like myself who are living with a chronic illness.
Insurance companies that regularly mistreat patients 1. Don't recruit as many providers and 2. Don't get as many investors. It is always about the money, but patients have a lot more power over insurance companies than they realize. Or exert.
Living this similar scenario and I also work in healthcare. Imagine, we have the knowledge that others don’t and how devastating and life changing it can be and then you finally get that PA and oh sorry, not in our formulary weneedourmeds and health STOP redtape