A 61-year-old man with diabetes is speaking out after he was initially denied coverage for Ozempic due to what he later learned was a clerical error.
Brampton resident Richard Hall was prescribed the drug by his doctor in February, but after filling his prescription – and paying out of pocket – he learned that his insurance provider, Manulife, wouldn’t reimburse him.
CTV News Toronto reached out to Manulife and asked why Hall’s coverage was denied. Within 24 hours, the insurance provider escalated the case, approved his coverage and indicated that his doctor’s pre-approval form was missing information. Hall said that he eventually found out that a box that his doctor needed to check off to indicate he was taking Ozempic in conjunction with Metformin was missed on the pre-approval form. But it struck Hall as odd that his diabetes and drug history wouldn’t set off alarm bells for the insurance provider to follow up with him to ask if it was a mistake.
Within weeks of starting the medication, his blood glucose readings were lower and more consistent than in all his years as a diabetic, he said. “If they delay or bind the doctor and patient in the pre-approval process … either the doctor will give up, or the patient will give up,” Bajaj said, speaking of all insurance companies, which each have their own version of this paperwork.
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