Insurance kickbacks

Dr. G. I’ve always enjoyed your content, but this is me ALL DAY LONG & I’ve never felt so seen. Between this one and your video explaining prior auths, I can show family & friends why I’m (sometimes) cranky after a 10 hour shift. Thank you for fighting the good fight with a 😃

I feel so sorry for doctors having to waste their time dealing with this. It takes so much time away from actual doctoring. How to make already sick people more stressed & maybe homicidal. This system is 💩

Accurate. The video is perfect and hilarious, the reality is soul-draining and awful.

And if you're an Indy pharmacy, they will reimburse you less than your cost is. So you have to the patient you cannot fill it and have them go to another pharmacy.

If your industry asks to be exempt from federal anti-kickback statues, then you’re getting kickbacks. Full stop. Calling them “rebates” is simply putting lipstick on a pig to make it more palatable to employer plans & patients.

I dealt with almost this exact scenario yesterday (down to the brands mentioned), only it was with @CoverMyMeds . Waste of time and no concern for the patient!

Are you talking about rebates with "kickbacks" or something even more explicitly a kickback?

I'm talking about rebates which are essentially legal kickbacks

So accurate. Also, on a side note, many health organizations smartly allow their Pharmacists to make changes such as this for providers in their organization under CPAs which makes it slightly less of a headache for the prescriber, etc.

The business model of the Insurance Industrial Complex is: deny payment. Good thing we're not like all those other developed countries, though.