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c/insurancefights·posted 3 months ago by u/amylin_amy

external review: the version I wish someone had shown me in week 1

Appeal Slow Clap ×4 The Quiet One ×3

Been lurking in c/glp1eu for about 20 months and finally have something worth posting.

Short version: week 92, 0.5mg, and external review is the bit I still cannot get a straight answer on. I have read the wiki, I have read the last 31 threads, and the answers split roughly down the middle.

What I actually want to know is whether the people saying it does not matter have measured it, or whether it is just repeated confidently. Happy to be told I am overthinking this — I probably am — but I would rather overthink it now than at week 3.

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u/ilias_cabrera0 points·3 months ago

external review is the appeal after insurance says no

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u/plain_titration_20241 point·3 months ago

external review is the appeal after insurance says no

Counter-anecdote: opposite result, same dose. Which mostly tells us the variance is huge.

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u/line_petrov1 point·3 months ago

say which country and which plan type

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u/cato_achebe93 points·3 months ago

What was the denial code?

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u/rekha_vestergaard0 points·3 months ago

copay is separate from coverage

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u/amylin_amyOPamylin1 point·3 months ago

copay is separate from coverage

Counter-anecdote: opposite result, same dose. Which mostly tells us the variance is huge.

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u/rekha_mbeki-38 points·3 months ago

step therapy documentation is the weapon, use it

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u/amylin_amyOPamylin1 point·3 months ago

copay is separate from coverage

Counter-anecdote: opposite result, same dose. Which mostly tells us the variance is huge.

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u/saskia_lokken32 points·3 months ago·edited

Did you get step therapy or outright denial?

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u/amylin_amyOPamylin23 points·3 months ago

the carve-out clause varies by employer

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u/cardio_endpoint_c26 points·3 months ago

Crossposting this to c/labresults because the people who need it are not reading this community.

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[removed]17 points·3 months ago

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u/marta_dziedzic9 points·3 months ago

step therapy documentation is the weapon, use it

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u/bence_zielinski6 points·3 months ago

Yeah, the denial code matters, it tells you what to fight.

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u/marta_vanhecke6 points·3 months ago

redact member ids and group numbers from every screenshot

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The paperwork war. Prior-authorisation criteria, denial reason codes, step-therapy documentation, external review, employer carve-outs, and the appeal letter templates the community has iterated on for three years. Mostly US-shaped but the tactics generalise.

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