Well, well...... someone that knows through experience.
could you advise us about what in your opinion is really happening? Does it effect patients adversely
“Does it effect patients adversely”
Are you for real?!!
What do you think denying patients their meds does?!
OH YEAH!
OK, say I have a cancer patient: My company pays for pain meds, anxiety meds, constipation, fever..... you know - symptoms related to their terminal disease.
Soooo.... Most of my patients have issues OTHER than their terminal disease; say high blood pressure, heart problems, or diabetes. In many cases, folks have been on the correct medications for these conditions for decades!
All of a sudden, just because they were on Hospice, Medicare just decided they weren’t paying for these “other condition maintenance meds” any more. They did this overnight one night with NO prior warning to anybody.
What a mess. We were all jumping through hoops and layers of bureaucrats just to get meds for our patients!
Say you’re dying of cancer but have a few months left. You are trying to enjoy what time you have left with your family. All of a sudden, you can’t get your diabetes medication. Your blood sugar shoots up. When your sugar is up your immune system is compromised. You get pneumonia and die. The cause of death was pneumonia secondary to hyperglycemia; not cancer.
The bureaucrats killed one of my patients MONTHS before his time in just that fashion.