Healthcare providers and insurance companies are in a persistent game of cat and mouse.⁠ ⁠ We try to prescribe something that's gonna help a patient — and the insurance company denies it.⁠ ⁠ Today we had someone in our office training our medical assistants on how to better get drugs covered for our patients.⁠ ⁠ What we learned: Insurance companies are now starting to deny medications if we don't put the exact language from the prescriber's information label into the medical note.⁠ ⁠ A lot of times, they're saying we need to use medicines that are much older, with way more side effects. Or they're teaching us to use a medicine that's not even indicated for the patient's condition.⁠ ⁠ It's a persistent game of cat and mouse. We have to figure out what they want us to say to get the right drug for a patient — and they're always trying to figure out how to deny it.⁠ ⁠ This is the illness industrial complex. And it's why healthcare feels broken.⁠ ⁠ #dermatologist #healthcareinsurance #illn...