Just stumbled upon this post, and it really hits home! I just battled with a dr's office for over a month to schedule a very overdue infusion for a drug I've taken for over 6 years. The hold up? They require me to get processed by the drug company's copay assistance program...for a $15 copay that I can easily afford (yes, I am 1,000% grateful for my amazing health plan). As a result, I'm significantly overdue for my next dose of medication, wasted hours on phone calls and emails to get this done, and had to reschedule travel plans at my own cost because my infusion landed in the middle of them.
I daydream of a world where insurance+pharma to just provide affordable medications for everyone (vs. complicated pharma assistance programs) and dr offices no longer have to play bottlenecking middlemen.
There never should have to be a whole bunch of unnecessary red tape and bureaucracy for things like this. It's similar with both insurance claims and necessary exemptions to vaccine mandates.
Just stumbled upon this post, and it really hits home! I just battled with a dr's office for over a month to schedule a very overdue infusion for a drug I've taken for over 6 years. The hold up? They require me to get processed by the drug company's copay assistance program...for a $15 copay that I can easily afford (yes, I am 1,000% grateful for my amazing health plan). As a result, I'm significantly overdue for my next dose of medication, wasted hours on phone calls and emails to get this done, and had to reschedule travel plans at my own cost because my infusion landed in the middle of them.
I daydream of a world where insurance+pharma to just provide affordable medications for everyone (vs. complicated pharma assistance programs) and dr offices no longer have to play bottlenecking middlemen.
There never should have to be a whole bunch of unnecessary red tape and bureaucracy for things like this. It's similar with both insurance claims and necessary exemptions to vaccine mandates.