Monday, June 15, 2020

Department of Redundancy Department

This is on a form I have to fill out to get a patient's migraine drug covered:

6 comments:

djw said...

Another reason to have somebody else read your stuff before you publish...

Packer said...

I think yes might be a good choice

Anonymous said...

So, if the patient has 16 a month they are not covered?

The Scrivener said...

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.

Anonymous said...

Looks like a PA form for a CGRP to me. Devil's in the detail, Dr.G.

Anonymous said...

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.

 
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