Food for thought
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Alabama (my health insurer) does not cover oral contraceptives for the purpose of birth control.
But it covers Viagra.
I think I'm getting an inkling of what life was like before women's lib.
I may go on strike.
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Raise hell, baby.
That's crazy. Wonder who's in charge there.
That is ludicrous.
But it begs the question: Why is Blue Cross Blue Shield of Alabama your insurer? I feel like computers are to blame, like there was a pull-down menu and someone accidentally selected Alabama instead of Arizona.
Matt's comment made me laugh. Diana, you need to be more careful with those pull-down menus. Alabama, Alaska, THEN Arizona...
OK, people. HealthSouth's HQ is in Birmingham.
And to add insult: This is my phone convo yesterday (one of many over the past 2 weeks with my dr., Walgreens Prescriptions, Walgreens Pharmacy, and BC/BS) with some guy from Walgreens Prescriptions:
WG: Your prior authorization was denied.
Me: Why? I called the doctor's office back and they said they refaxed it.
WG: It's denied.
Me: Why?
WG: Your insurer does not cover contraceptives for the purpose of birth control.
Me: What other purpose is there?
WG: Your prior authorization was denied.
Me: But I've had prior auth for the last year for the same drug, same insurer. What's the difference?
WG: Your insurer does not cover contraceptives when they're used only for the purpose of birth control.
Me: Why were they covered last year?
WG: (very reluctantly) Your doctor put a second reason on the form.
Me: Oh. OK, so my doctor needs to add a second reason, refax the form, and then I'll have the prior auth. Right?
WG: There's ETHICS! You have to -- you can't just --
This was the highly abridged transcript. Can you feel the pain?
Sounds like a rigmarole:
n. a long, unintelligible story; a succession of confused or disjointed statements; loose disjointed talk; incoherent harangue; nonsense.
So sorry!
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