Doctors and Patients Try to Shame Insurers Online to Reverse Prior Authorization Denials

(By Lauren Sausser for KFF Health News)

Sally Nix was furious when her health insurance company refused to pay for the infusions she needs to ease her chronic pain and fatigue.

Nix has struggled with a combination of autoimmune diseases since 2011. Brain and spinal surgeries didn’t ease her symptoms. Nothing worked, she said, until she started intravenous immunoglobulin infusions late last year. Commonly called IVIG, the treatment bolsters her compromised immune system with healthy antibodies from other people’s blood plasma.

“IVIG turned out to be my great hope,” she said. Continue reading here…

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