Prescription denial is just the beginning

Imagine my surprise upon arriving at the pharmacy to pick up my monthly supply of glucose testing strips only to be told that Medicare rejected my request for a refill of my script. Why? Because they wanted a diagnosis code, clinical notes, progress notes and my test log.

I had no warning and this was not a new script. Test strips not surgery. Not a cost increase, a total rejection. This is only the beginning. For those of you who supported the health care legislation recently passed, I hope you never get this surprise yourselves.

I hope you are ready for socialized medicine. It’s not going to be pretty. Imagine, after 30-plus years of checking my blood sugars to keep my diabetes “in control,” my refill was rejected because I did not have “proof” that I needed to be checking.

The MD’s order was insufficient. Evidently, it is more cost effective to pay for the hospitalizations and surgeries required by the complications that will come from not being “under control.”

The Medical Examiner will not sign our death certificates, it will be a government employee with a high school education. God bless us every one.

Marianne Bailey

Lake Zurich