Physician's Weekly

JUNE 19, 2025

In this first installment of a two-part series, “An Arm and a Leg” shares lessons from Bob’s experience navigating a maze of pharmacies and insurance companies to get his daughter the medicine she needs. Bob’s journey here begins in 2019 — the first day of high school for his daughter, Mary. That happens a lot.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

I see this in the hospital when I’m doing addiction medicine consults. But back in 2019, there was a lot of disagreement in our group about whether for a patient with cancer and cancer related pain and a substance use disorder, whether palliative care was the appropriate specialty to care for those patients.

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Patients Clinic Patient-Centered Illness 73

GeriPal

DECEMBER 5, 2024

His lymphoma had relapsed, and palliative care was consulted to help with his symptoms. It was all covered by my mom’s insurance. It was late on a Friday afternoon in December 2019. The contrast between this view and the drab hospital walls as I walked into my patient’s room was jarring. I’ll call my patient.

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GeriPal

APRIL 18, 2024

Alex: In 2019 … You wrote two viewpoints about AI recently in JAMA, relatively recently. I guess, 2019, and then, one again about last month or so. maybe eight or 10 months ago, “Please write a prior authorization to the insurance company. And then, this little mini consultant. Eric: Yeah. Eric: Yeah.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 17, 2025

But that’s when his family began fighting another adversary: their health insurer, which decided the treatment was “not medically necessary,” according to insurance paperwork. Health insurers issue millions of denials every year. “They’re, like, not accountable to anyone.” Senate report.

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