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A doctor's letter to United Heathcare in response to them denying nausea meds for a kid on chemo
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this post was submitted on 06 Dec 2024
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A lot of these meds are cheap like borscht. Zofran costs cents per pill. I've administered 50 ml minibags that cost $10K to the hospital, but most simple meds like this are cheap. It costs crazy amounts in America mostly because of yalls' crazy private insurance system and the arms race between billers and insurance
yeah. and when you think about the total drug cost of an entire chemo regimen it's even less defensible, somehow