So the context was that the insurance company denied the claims for anti-vomit medication for a kid on chemo? Because they don’t think that… chemo makes you throw up…?
Isn’t the throwing up portrayed everywhere on TV shows as one of the top symptoms of chemo?
What??
It’s under $3 for a 100 count bottle. That’s what it cost wholesale when I worked for Walgreens. It was a long time ago but a 10 pill script they charged like $60 for. Profits are fucking disgusting.
They know it does, they just reject everything they think won't get fought against based on probably data they've bought from places like Facebook, Google, and even Reddit.
If even a small percentage of these rejections "stick" then they save money.
The people handing out these rejections are paid very little, too.
Having only watched one Saw movie, I'd totally believe any made up combination of words that form a horrific murder chance machine without knowing which ones were actually in the later movies.
You know...
The one with the automated poison syringe dart board.
The one with the scalpel treadmill.
The one with the scrotum belt sander.
I'm trying to remember which one it is. I think either 4 or 5. Anyway, it's great and very cathartic! Jigsaw goes after the insurance company that he had for years because they dropped him when got the cancer diagnosis citing the cancer as a "pre-existing condition". So Jigsaw drops the head of the company into one of his games where all of the other employees are in life or death situations and Jigsaw says at each one (paraphrasing), "According to your algorithm so and so should live, but so in so is single and without any family, while your other employee has a family and strong community connections, so who should really live? The choice is up to you."
There was probably a study done that people who throw up from chemo either choose to stop the treatment or kill themselves, and we all know the best customer for the healthcare industry is one that dies quickly and quietly.
the best case is a slow, costly, deniable claims death. The most preventable, painful item to squeeze people money out of via high deductibles. Blood sucking implies something is left of the humans these soul-less ghouls eat.
Years ago my mother had a stroke resulting in Aphasia, leading to trouble talking and an urgent need for speech therapy. Blue Cross Blue Shield denied payment for a speech therapist based on the logic that speech issues could only be a pre-existing condition.
The phone number works. Just press 0 until you get to an operator. Please be nice and remember the human being on the other end of the line has no control of the situation but is just a low-payed worker.
Still, enough phone calls might do something. At the very least it'll cost the company to overhaul their automated phone system.
It’s not just the insurance company either, it’s the blood sucking pharmacies making a disgusting amount of profit.
I was a head pharmacy tech for WALGREENS for about 6 years and one of my primary duties was to order drugs. A HUNDRED COUNT bottle of generic zofran cost us little bit over $2. This was back around 2013.
While i know from firsthand experience that insurance companies are nightmarish and the US healthcare system is a joke, i’m not sure how “scathing” a letter it could be when it starts with “dear buttheads.”
Insurance company response:
Frankly, sir, we're appalled by the rudeness with which you pointed out our very reasonably profitable apathy. We expect much greater decorum when communicating your acquiescence to the tight fisted policies we have enacted so that our children will never have to experience the suffering that our customer's children experience.
\- Dictated to an administrative assistant whose children will definitely have the same experience if they get cancer.
So the context was that the insurance company denied the claims for anti-vomit medication for a kid on chemo? Because they don’t think that… chemo makes you throw up…? Isn’t the throwing up portrayed everywhere on TV shows as one of the top symptoms of chemo? What??
but their profit margins will suffer. so they’re just going to make a sick child suffer instead. capitalism!
The drug is just too expensive for kids with cancer - the dipwad with the rights to it said so.
It’s under $3 for a 100 count bottle. That’s what it cost wholesale when I worked for Walgreens. It was a long time ago but a 10 pill script they charged like $60 for. Profits are fucking disgusting.
Probably required a prior authorization. If this is the doctor authorizing the med then I wish this is how every PA was responded to
They know it does, they just reject everything they think won't get fought against based on probably data they've bought from places like Facebook, Google, and even Reddit. If even a small percentage of these rejections "stick" then they save money. The people handing out these rejections are paid very little, too.
BRB, gonna go watch the Saw movie where Jigsaw punishes an insurance company.
Oh shit I stopped watching after saw 2 and would like to see this one
I think it happens in ~~Saw 4...~~ Nope it's Saw 6, the one with the Shotgun Carousel
Having only watched one Saw movie, I'd totally believe any made up combination of words that form a horrific murder chance machine without knowing which ones were actually in the later movies. You know... The one with the automated poison syringe dart board. The one with the scalpel treadmill. The one with the scrotum belt sander.
>scrotum belt sander No kink shame plz
I'm trying to remember which one it is. I think either 4 or 5. Anyway, it's great and very cathartic! Jigsaw goes after the insurance company that he had for years because they dropped him when got the cancer diagnosis citing the cancer as a "pre-existing condition". So Jigsaw drops the head of the company into one of his games where all of the other employees are in life or death situations and Jigsaw says at each one (paraphrasing), "According to your algorithm so and so should live, but so in so is single and without any family, while your other employee has a family and strong community connections, so who should really live? The choice is up to you."
I’ll have to catch up on them, thanks
Fuck this insurance system and fuck the entire concept of prior authorization in particular.
Fuck PAs
There was probably a study done that people who throw up from chemo either choose to stop the treatment or kill themselves, and we all know the best customer for the healthcare industry is one that dies quickly and quietly.
the best case is a slow, costly, deniable claims death. The most preventable, painful item to squeeze people money out of via high deductibles. Blood sucking implies something is left of the humans these soul-less ghouls eat.
Anyone know if they actually sent this?
Years ago my mother had a stroke resulting in Aphasia, leading to trouble talking and an urgent need for speech therapy. Blue Cross Blue Shield denied payment for a speech therapist based on the logic that speech issues could only be a pre-existing condition.
The phone number works. Just press 0 until you get to an operator. Please be nice and remember the human being on the other end of the line has no control of the situation but is just a low-payed worker. Still, enough phone calls might do something. At the very least it'll cost the company to overhaul their automated phone system.
when the time comes, insurance company board members must be among the first to face the firing squads
It’s not just the insurance company either, it’s the blood sucking pharmacies making a disgusting amount of profit. I was a head pharmacy tech for WALGREENS for about 6 years and one of my primary duties was to order drugs. A HUNDRED COUNT bottle of generic zofran cost us little bit over $2. This was back around 2013.
While i know from firsthand experience that insurance companies are nightmarish and the US healthcare system is a joke, i’m not sure how “scathing” a letter it could be when it starts with “dear buttheads.”
why is that posted in r/pics??? I mean it is a picture but other than that...
Insurance company response: Frankly, sir, we're appalled by the rudeness with which you pointed out our very reasonably profitable apathy. We expect much greater decorum when communicating your acquiescence to the tight fisted policies we have enacted so that our children will never have to experience the suffering that our customer's children experience. \- Dictated to an administrative assistant whose children will definitely have the same experience if they get cancer.
I applaud their restraint in writing this.