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c/insurancefights·posted 1 year ago by u/saskia_lokken

genuine question about denial that I am slightly embarrassed to ask

Appeal Long Haul ×9 Receipts ×2

Confession thread, sort of.

I went from 0.5mg to 12.5mg much faster than I should have because the scale had stalled and I got impatient. The stall broke about 5 weeks later, at which point I had no way of knowing whether the dose increase did anything or whether it would have broken anyway.

So now I have sulphur burps I did not need and a data point I cannot interpret. Two lessons in one.

Posting it in the hope that somebody at week 9 reads it before doing the same thing.

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u/vito_beaulieu126 points·1 year ago

Disagree but this is the good kind of wrong — it is specific enough to be checked.

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u/camila_vasquez36 points·1 year ago

denial reason codes matter, ask for the actual code

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u/niels_salinas29 points·1 year ago

step therapy documentation is the weapon, use it

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u/tomas_lehtinen20 points·1 year ago

do not suggest misrepresenting a diagnosis, that is fraud

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u/adaeze_cabrera16 points·1 year ago

appeal letter templates are in the wiki

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u/RetaAndRegret299 points·12 months ago

external review is the appeal after insurance says no

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u/tomas_lehtinen-38 points·1 year ago

Which state? Coverage varies.

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u/wholesome_lurker1 point·1 year ago

Which state?

Disagree on that part. 97.4% and 97.6% on the same vial is normal.

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u/ferran_batista47 points·12 months ago

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

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u/dose_diary_danalog keeper13 points·12 months ago

No. This is the kind of confident post that gets copied into a screenshot and repeated for years. Where is the evidence.

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u/saskia_lokkenOP7 points·12 months ago

Slight fix: the number was 99.2, not 99.1. Decimal point, but a fairly consequential one.

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u/plain_titration37 points·1 year ago

Sceptical. If this were true we would see it reflected in the data and we do not.

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u/saskia_lokkenOP15 points·1 year ago

Which plan type? appeal is different.

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u/janoshik_junkieindependent tester6 points·12 months ago

Which state? Coverage varies.

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u/hamza_weiss6 points·12 months ago

redact member ids and group numbers from every screenshot

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u/formulary_fighterMOD19 points·1 year ago

This is an urgent-care question wearing a forum question's clothes. Please contact a clinician rather than waiting for replies.

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u/saskia_lokkenOP12 points·1 year ago

External review overturned the denial. Took 5 weeks but the process exists.

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u/valeria_grimaldi23 points·1 year ago

This is the "correlation is mechanism" thing again. You changed three variables at once.

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u/tomas_lehtinen19 points·12 months ago·edited

external review is the appeal after insurance says no

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u/emeka_delgado12 points·1 year ago

denial reason codes matter, ask for the actual code

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u/milan_wikstrom11 points·1 year ago

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

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u/hassan_chowdhury26 points·1 year ago

Rodent data is rodent data. Dose scaling is not linear and the models tell you what to investigate, not what to expect.

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u/elin_lindqvist6 points·12 months ago

The practical rule people converge on is 28 days at fridge temperature after first puncture, and that comes from the preservative, not the peptide.

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u/coring_the_stopper2 points·12 months ago

prior auth criteria are state-specific, prior authorization differs

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u/saskia_lokken0 points·12 months ago

external review is the appeal after insurance says no

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u/rekha_mbeki15 points·1 year ago

do not suggest misrepresenting a diagnosis, that is fraud

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u/adaeze_cabrera10 points·12 months ago

step therapy documentation is the weapon, use it

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