Aetna nsurance won’t cover cost of actiq suckers for severe herniated disk pain Our policy says?

(Some Pharmacudical companies offer patient payment help, or discounts/coupons. You can contact the pharmacutical company if your Dr's office doesn't have coupons for you). Health insurance is being very difficult these days in giving patients what they need. Your Dr, or the medical assistant can contest this usually with a form- sometimes the insurance company will need in writing that a patient has failed other medications before they will finally approve a rx'd medication from your Dr. I don't know why insurance companies feel they can override a doctor's treatment plan.

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(I have been taking Nucynta for months, and one month- my ins company denied it- stating that they would cover oxycodone or morphine instead!! Not even in the same ballpark! They would have rather push something much stronger and more addictive it seems, but although it took 2 tries, my doctor's medical assistant got them to cover it again, the Dr wrote on the form that i had had success with Nucynta before, and failed vicodin, percocet, and ultram). And in my office, I have seen plenty a patient receive Actiq that were not cancer patients. Best wishes...