http://medicare-medicaid.com/medicare/what-are-the-centers-for-medicare-medicaid-services-cms/ Medicare & Medicaid Information Mon, 30 Nov 2009 19:03:43 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://medicare-medicaid.com/medicare/what-are-the-centers-for-medicare-medicaid-services-cms/comment-page-1/#comment-7190 Rita Mon, 22 Jun 2009 17:26:51 +0000 http://medicare-medicaid.com/medicare/what-are-the-centers-for-medicare-medicaid-services-cms/#comment-7190 How come it is so difficult to find out why a prescription isn't covered? Or who your caseworker is? My disabled brother-in-law needs some costly chemo drugs and has no income other than Social Security-is on Medicare and Medicaid-needs to come up with $ 300 every three weeks to get this oral scrip Alternative is IV at the Cancer Clinic which will cost ten times as much and Medicare and Medicaid will have to pay for all of it. Very frustrating. How come it is so difficult to find out why a prescription isn’t covered? Or who your caseworker is? My disabled brother-in-law needs some costly chemo drugs and has no income other than Social Security-is on Medicare and Medicaid-needs to come up with $ 300 every three weeks to get this oral scrip
Alternative is IV at the Cancer Clinic which will cost ten times as much and Medicare and Medicaid will have to pay for all of it. Very frustrating.

]]> http://medicare-medicaid.com/medicare/what-are-the-centers-for-medicare-medicaid-services-cms/comment-page-1/#comment-1897 Susan Brammer Mon, 28 Jul 2008 18:38:00 +0000 http://medicare-medicaid.com/medicare/what-are-the-centers-for-medicare-medicaid-services-cms/#comment-1897 Medicaid needs some real help and knowledge of health and medicine not just how to keep one from getting their medications so they can end up in the hospital and then cost the service more. I have spent all morning and now afternoon trying to find out who my caseworker is and why some prior authorization is needed on a medicine I had 2 refills left for and that I have been taking for almost 20 years to help control my seizures. Now 35 minutes after I was needing that medicine I still can't get a # to call that isn't just another machine and no approval has come through to the pharmacy for me to get my necessary medications. This is uncalled for and the whole system needs to spend time learning how to do something besides push the hold button on the phone or put on those annoying recordings. Medicaid needs some real help and knowledge of health and medicine not just how to keep one from getting their medications so they can end up in the hospital and then cost the service more. I have spent all morning and now afternoon trying to find out who my caseworker is and why some prior authorization is needed on a medicine I had 2 refills left for and that I have been taking for almost 20 years to help control my seizures. Now 35 minutes after I was needing that medicine I still can’t get a # to call that isn’t just another machine and no approval has come through to the pharmacy for me to get my necessary medications. This is uncalled for and the whole system needs to spend time learning how to do something besides push the hold button on the phone or put on those annoying recordings.

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