"Off Label" is now fashionable
I have family members who are physicians and there have been
times they wrote an Rx for a patient a medication… that was off label … My
brother once had a patient who was extremely depressed and suicidal … he tried several different drugs on this patient to stabilize him, nothing
worked (per what insurance companies will/ would pay for any given drug per its labeled disease) only the
drugs that are “labeled for the disease” you are suffering from will they pay
for … try to go off label and the insurance company denies the claim every time ...
Finally my brother found a drug that worked for this patient
but it was not designed for the illness his patient had, yet it was helping this
patient … the patient tried desperately to get his insurance company to pay for
this drug and they continually said “NO” … it is off label to his condition the insurance would say …
My brother even called the insurance company and said if you refuse my patient this
drug, his potential suicide will be on
your hands … as far as I know the insurance company never paid for this poor
man’s drugs … I do not know what the final outcome for this man was … but it is
sad … how insurance companies only care about
money in their pockets not caring for the patients who paid the premiums …
There is literally hundreds of drugs that can be given “off
label” for some patients and have it help them and the insurance companies refused
to pay for, since it was/ is “off label” ….
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