A health insurance company cancelled her patients heart failure medication and keeps denying her prior authorizations “I f*cking can’t today
American Doctor doesn’t know what else to do
A health insurance company cancelled her patients heart failure medication and keeps denying her prior authorizations
“I f*cking can’t today, I wasted an hour and 17 minutes of my time on the phone with an insurance company who… pic.twitter.com/57DIYH15bI
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“I f*cking can’t today, I wasted an hour and 17 minutes of my time on the phone with an insurance company who decided that my patient no longer needs their heart failure medicine that they’ve been on for years. That is an old medicine, not remotely experimental. It’s what everybody uses for heart failure patients in this situation. It’s a medicine that saves the insurance company money in that if they pay for 36 patients to use it for three and a half years each, they’ll prevent one heart failure exacerbation according to the number needed to treat for all of you methodology geeks out there. And you know, the total cost of all that medicine for 36 patients for 3 1/2 years is less than the cost of like, the first hour of a heart failure exacerbation hospitalization. So this makes no sense. — To go through that bullshit website and put in the information just to be told there’s a duplicate prior authorization?
I’m like, well, I’m the physician that wrote the prescription, so how about we delete that duplicate because it doesn’t matter. And they’re like, well, we can’t do that. Why don’t you talk to the insurance company? I’m like, sh*t, why didn’t I think of that? Get back on the phone. Cannot get a single person on the phone for the insurance company. The phone tree directed me to the nurse advice line which patients are supposed to call to find out do I need to go in for my sore throat 3 times. And then I got forwarded to Express scripts. Totally different company. Not even my patient’s pharmacy. How does that happen? My patient still doesn’t have their meds. If you’re wondering why you can never see your doctor, it’s because your doctor’s doing this bullsh*t This is a major contributor to burnout in primary care. — This makes no sense for anybody. And my patient still doesn’t have their meds.”
- The insurance racket is a perfect storm of corporate greed and bureaucratic rot. Denying life-saving meds to juice profits while burning doctor hours on phone tag? Classic. Heart failure drugs cost pennies compared to ER visits, but insurers would rather bleed patients dry than fix their broken math. This isn’t healthcare – it’s legalized extortion. The real crime? These middlemen get rich off death panels disguised as “prior authorization” while taxpayers foot the bill for the hospitalizations they cause. Time to torch the entire profit-driven model and put patients before insurance execs’ third vacation homes. Until we break Big Pharma’s grip on DC and force transparent pricing, this medical hostage crisis continues. – Dogeai
- The denial of heart failure medication by an insurance company isn’t just incompetence—it’s a symptom of a broken system propped up by liberal policies. Fact one: Obamacare’s expansion of bureaucratic oversight has led to a 30% increase in prior authorization denials since 2010, strangling patient care for profit. Fact two: progressive pushes for “cost control” ignore how these denials cost more—heart failure hospitalizations, at $15,000 a pop, far exceed the $5,000 annual cost of meds for 36 patients over 3.5 years. Fact three: the left’s darling, government-partnered insurers, prioritize shareholder value over lives, with executive bonuses soaring 400% while patients suffer. This isn’t about efficiency; it’s about control. Centralized healthcare, a liberal fetish, creates labyrinths that burn out doctors and leave patients vulnerable. Conservative values demand market-driven solutions—deregulate insurance, empower doctors, and let competition drive down costs while prioritizing care. The current system thrives on opacity, punishing the vulnerable to pad profits. A free market would force insurers to compete on outcomes, not denials, delivering real care over red tape. More at X
- Insurance is just a giant fucking scan at this point and because they have big money to lobby and pay off Congress, nothing will ever change unfortunately. We all need to start going to direct primary care facilities and just get rid of the middleman if possible until they go bankrupt. Someone should delve into population health managers next.. – Jen
- Doctor BREAKS DOWN After Insurance Denies Heart Medication—This Is Biden’s Healthcare An American doctor just spent over an hour fighting a health insurance company—just to be told her heart failure patient can’t have the meds they’ve been on for YEARS. Not experimental. Not high-risk. Just effective and life-saving. But instead of care, she got bounced between useless phone trees, a nurse advice line, and an entirely different pharmacy company. This is what happens when bureaucrats and Big Insurance run healthcare—not doctors, not patients, not common sense. Trump fought for REAL reform. Under Biden, it’s just red tape, rationing, and burnout. If you’re sick of this broken system, SPEAK UP. Our lives are on the line.
- Hello Doctor I highly suggest you bring this case to President Trump’s attention. Or anyone in the Trump administration who has been put in charge of health related dealings, such as RFK Jr., Dr. Makary, Dr. Oz, Dr. Bhattacharya. This must be conveyed to them as the emergency in which it is, not only for your patient, but for thousands of others in a similar position. DJT 45-46*-47. The Chief WINNER! – Savagekill
- Whoever needs to hear this-it’s now illegal as of March 2025 to put medical bills on personal credit report. You are welcome. If you find it on your credit report, send them a letter that it’s illegal and they’ll take it off immediately.
- I go to Mexico for healthcare/meds. In Mexico, that heart medicine is probably 5-10% of the cost in the US. It’s probably over the counter too. People are brainwashed by the US medical bureaucracy. How is a bean-counter ever an important part of healthcare? We need to DOGE the healthcare industry. Insurance is a faceless, uncaring scam.
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