My brother lost his primary care physician and after over 50 attempts can not get one worth a damn. His doctor of ten years retired rather deal with Obamacare and he is stuck in a network that requires him to have an mri that is less then 5 years old in order to gain admission to an outside pain clinic, if he stays in network the network makes a few bucks. He tried the network pain clinic and got no help even though he has 2 inches of doctors reports stating that he is in constant chronic pain. These come from John Hopkins and the Mayo Clinic among others. His doctor who finally agreed to take him on will not order an mri. So he got his records and left him. He is not a druggie just in chronic pain. I know, I have known him for over 50 years.
A friend in another state arranged a visit to a pain clinic for him. His medicaid, though called something else will not pay a dime because it is out of network. He is totally disabled and spent his last cash for his pain meds. My family is now the last hope for him, roughly 700 bucks each month for his meds must come from us. Before Obamacare this problem did not exist.
Rest assured we will help him both financially for his drugs and with any legal costs he may incur. If Medicaid is working in your area you are fortunate, but that will change as it was designed to.
I do have a suspicion that there is something else going on here or I am hearing only part of the story. 50 bad doctors in a row? That is strange. I am 59 and really have never encountered a bad physician/PAC/ARNP. Some had personalities I didn't care for but all seemed basically competent and did their jobs. Your brother does seem to be getting the scripts from somewhere since you are paying $700/month to fill them; where are they coming from if he has left or been rejected from all practices? Most opiate prescriptions are not refillable.
If Medicaid is working in your area you are fortunate, but that will change as it was designed to.
What does that mean?