Tag: prior authorization
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Insurance companies practice medicine without a license every single day
When an insurer denies a doctor’s recommendation, that’s a medical decision being made by a non-clinician. The legal fiction that it isn’t is overdue for a reckoning.
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Step therapy kills people and nobody is held accountable
Step therapy forces patients to fail cheaper drugs before insurers cover what doctors actually prescribed. The harm is documented. The accountability isn’t.
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Prior authorization is malpractice with a paper trail
Prior authorization delays care, denies treatment, and shifts liability away from insurers. It functions as malpractice with paperwork as cover.
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The Influence of Insurance on Treatment Decisions
Your insurance plan quietly steers your medical care more than your doctor does. Here’s how coverage rules shape diagnoses, prescriptions, and outcomes.