Starting July 1st Blue Cross Plan of Mass plans on limiting the amount of short term opiates that can prescribed and making all long term opiates requiring a PA.. that is unless you are terminally ill. They are concerned that 30,000 of their 2.8 MILLION insured got short acting opiates for more than 30 days.. to save you the math that is ~ ONE PERCENT of their insured and 3,000 received long acting opiates – ONE -ONE HUNDREDTH PERCENT.
What a epidemic.. these guidelines were established ….But Dr. John Fallon, Blue Cross’s chief physician executive, said the insurer spent 18 months working with specialists in pain care and addiction, and others, to develop a plan that balances patients’ needs with a mission to help stem the oversupply of drugs in the marketplace.
It would appear that these guidelines EXCLUDES anyone with chronic pain …that is not terminally ill… AND it took them 18 months… not to sound like I am bragging.. but I could have done it in < 8 hrs… and it would have BALANCED ALL patients’ needs..
IMO… what a bunch of OPIOPHIBIC MORONS !!… have they not heard about PAYING CASH FOR RXS?.. or is that the point… their stats/metrics will show that they are doing something while forcing those in chronic pain to be able to use the health benefits that they are paying for?
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I completely agree with your main point here, but, um, 3000 people on long-acting narcs out of 2,800,000 = 0.1% or one-tenth of a percent, not one one-hundredth of a percent.