The insurance companies tell doctors how to practice medicine.
Before my knee replacement, I was getting shots. The insurance company will pay for the medication my doctor wanted to use only if he used cortisone first and it didn’t work. Cortisone didn’t work, but I had to suffer another month to prove it.
The new medication worked so good that I did not need it for another 24 months. But wait! Since it was more than a year since I used it, the insurance company insisted that we use cortisone (kickback?) first even though it proved to be ineffective.
So I played the game: I got a shot of the new medication every year whether I needed it or not. All in the name of reducing the cost of medicine.
The insurance companies tell doctors how to practice medicine.
Before my knee replacement, I was getting shots. The insurance company will pay for the medication my doctor wanted to use only if he used cortisone first and it didn’t work. Cortisone didn’t work, but I had to suffer another month to prove it.
The new medication worked so good that I did not need it for another 24 months. But wait! Since it was more than a year since I used it, the insurance company insisted that we use cortisone (kickback?) first even though it proved to be ineffective.
So I played the game: I got a shot of the new medication every year whether I needed it or not. All in the name of reducing the cost of medicine.