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Added 2023-01-08 18:03:37 +0000 UTCWhat has happened to me is both typical and absolutely beyond what should be possible. Doctors made mistakes and refused to acknowledge them. Then they ignored a dozen calls/letters pointing out I couldn’t survive their mistakes - especially since my Botox injections have expired. Oh, and my new Botox injections were canceled because everyone at Medicare went on holiday and left weeks of claims to sit. I don’t know where they’ll happen now, and every day I get worse.
So, uh, anyone know a dirty pharmacist? I just want my STANDARD plan. It’s friggin tramadol missing, which is so mild you don’t need to show ID to get it. If this gets any worse, things a lot scarier will need to be used, and I have no desire to be further villainized due to YEARS of malpractice.
The fun part of malpractice is I assume I’d be instantly blacklisted, so it’d turn into a wrongful death suit before the first case reached a judge!
I can’t draw in this level of distress. Hell, it took me weeks to through the photos of the Fancy Feast sketches - and I still haven’t finished!
I have so much left to do, and it’s insane how cruelty, laziness and cowardice had to collide with holidays to ruin the last embers of my quality of life. I want to work, and it’s proven I quickly approve with proper meds. To have two thirds of my plan taken away this way is disgusting.
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Someone else I talked to suggested that every time doctors don't test for something that you think they should test for, you should demand that they put it on your record that they refused to test you for it.
SirIntellegence
2023-01-25 01:55:22 +0000 UTCThere are details I’m not sharing obviously, tho all are tied to the doc’s mismanagement (even tho I’m blamed for all complications). The tramadol is actually only $8, BUT HE WON’T WRITE THE SCRIPT, cuz it hurts his ego to admit he’s wrong. And since I’m in pain management, I’m legally tied even if every other doctor of mine thinks this guy is a deranged idiot. No crazy addict would ask for the *teeniest* of nudges, but for a movement disorder a missed action period coverage is eventually lethal! I had to let my Botox be cancelled cuz I’m already committed to paying over $10,000 out of pocket for other procedures. So I’m at the mercy of overworked and uncaring office folks clearing a holiday authorization backlog, then a doctor’s schedule. And, as always, the bottleneck is me. I don’t get blips of focus long enough to complete big paperwork tasks. I can’t really contemplate what to do right now. I’m a wounded animal who can’t think straight.
Christopher Paulsen
2023-01-08 22:42:57 +0000 UTCThe doctor won't phone in to reauthorize your prescription? I see it's like $20, but since the FDA updated it to a schedule 4 drug a few years ago it's not easy to get. If filing and processing a Medicaid claim is the only thing holding it up then maybe they can switch this one relatively-cheap thing to out of pocket and expedite it? I could call and yell and at them but I doubt that harassment from an internet rando will improve the situation. Like you said, pending litigation would pretty much put everything on hold indefinitely. I've been racking my brain trying to figure how I can help. I realized these issues all pretty much go away if you're rich enough because you're no longer subject to insurance bureaucrat whims and doctors that don't want to deal with them. I guess that's the long term goal. It sounds like your full treatment regimen would run over $3,000/month paying retail out of pocket, which I wouldn't be able to sustain for you myself. Is there some amount of cash bribe that would get this doctor to at least care about resolving the impasse? I did some reading and it's illegal to take additional money for any services that are billed to Medicaid/Medicare ("double billing"), but you can pay for services that are not covered. If he's not simply evil then maybe a financial arrangement can we worked out for the additional consultations needed for this "complex" case? Please don't die on me, I wouldn't be able to handle that. I could beg my friend in Houston to move you over there as a last resort. His wife has just finished establishing her private practice as a plastic surgeon and she's a natural genius who has researched nerves and pain and specializes in the face. He mentioned to me she would be open to reviewing your case. You'd have to leave everything behind and have to start over again on getting disability and Medicaid benefits if you changed states, though.
James Walters
2023-01-08 22:01:57 +0000 UTC
