Anonymous @ 6:53pm -- more than 15 headache days per month is one of the criteria for chronic migraine, as opposed to episodic migraine. Different treatments.
Egadzooks. How does anyone have the patience to fill out these prior authorization forms, if they know they'll be processed by someone with a high school diploma at the most? Maybe that's why pharmacists hand over the job to techs to send to the docs. There's this tiny suspicion the physician really wanted to order a particular medication because it was the appropriate prescription for the diagnosis, that's why? How many times are PAs turned down? Maybe it's a rhetorical question. Maybe there's another reason, but I cannot think of it right off the top of my head right now.
Another reason to have somebody else read your stuff before you publish...
ReplyDeleteI think yes might be a good choice
ReplyDeleteSo, if the patient has 16 a month they are not covered?
ReplyDeleteAnonymous @ 6:53pm -- more than 15 headache days per month is one of the criteria for chronic migraine, as opposed to episodic migraine. Different treatments.
ReplyDeleteLooks like a PA form for a CGRP to me. Devil's in the detail, Dr.G.
ReplyDeleteEgadzooks. How does anyone have the patience to fill out these prior authorization forms, if they know they'll be processed by someone with a high school diploma at the most? Maybe that's why pharmacists hand over the job to techs to send to the docs. There's this tiny suspicion the physician really wanted to order a particular medication because it was the appropriate prescription for the diagnosis, that's why? How many times are PAs turned down? Maybe it's a rhetorical question. Maybe there's another reason, but I cannot think of it right off the top of my head right now.
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