The end of the saga, for now

[klwilliams]

On Thursday, eight days after they first declined my prescription of Tecfidera, I got a letter in the post* telling me that they had done so. They had a vague mention of my not having clinical work done, to cause this, but they didn't actually say what that clinical work was. They did helpfully say that I could appeal this decision by writing them a letter and mailing it to the address below, but they didn't give me any timeline for when they would respond. In the meantime, had my friends not used twitter to help intervene, I'd have been without medication, for weeks. And Aetna would have saved thousands of dollars, so their stockholders would have been happy.

Today, three days after that one, I got a letter saying that Aetna had in fact approved Tecfidera after all.

Thank you all, and thank God for Twitter.



*new word I learned from my husband

Comments

[birdsedge.livejournal.com]

Excellent news.

[swan-tower.livejournal.com]

This is exactly the kind of stupid bureaucratic bullshit I wish we could legislate into illegality.

[gillpolack.livejournal.com]

I'm so happy to hear the outcome - I'm not at all happy about the muckups along the way.

[dame-cordelia.livejournal.com]

I am very pleased that Aetna has been subdued - again. And you are slowly learning British, which we all know is not the same language as American.