On the subject in the title: An appeal that succeeded, with the letter structure Working notes rather than a conclusion.
Appeal, and specifically the version of it that the documentation does not cover. The maintained page handles the general case well and stops exactly where my question starts.
Setting out the gap in case it is a gap in the page rather than a gap in what is known.
A methods point on appeal rather than a substantive one: if the comparison is not like for like, the difference you are measuring is the difference in method.
The arithmetic in post #2 is right; the assumption feeding it is the part to check.
Reimbursement changes: a compound covered one year might not be the next. A formulary decision in January can change by April. Checking again before refilling saves frustration.
If anyone can point at the primary source I would be grateful.
A clinician's supporting letter that addresses the criteria explicitly is worth considerably more than one that describes the patient generally.
None of the above is medical advice and I am not qualified to give any.
The reason appeal keeps being re-asked is that the answer is conditional and people quote it without the condition. It is not that the answer is unknown.
Narrowing post #6, because the general version has more than one answer.
Denial letters: the stated reason tells you exactly what to submit next. A denial is not final; it is a specification for an appeal. Reading the reason carefully and responding point-by-point to it works better than general appeals.
Good question, well framed, and I would like to see it answered properly.
This follows post #6 rather than contradicting it.
My experience of appeal contradicts the reply above. I am posting it as a data point rather than as a refutation, because one person's experience is exactly that.
Where an exception process exists separately from an appeal, they are different routes with different criteria and using the wrong one loses time.
Noting that the question and the thing people usually mean by it are different.
The denial letter is the specification for your appeal. It states a criterion, and the job is to demonstrate that the criterion is met in the letter's own language.
I have written this out at length because the short version keeps being misread.
That is the distinction I keep failing to hold on to. Written down now.
Everything in post #11 holds. The case it does not cover is the one I have.
Marking my uncertainty on appeal explicitly. I am confident about the direction, much less confident about the size, and not confident at all that it generalises past the case in the first post.
Narrowing post #15, because the general version has more than one answer.
Appeal is well covered in the tag pages, and the older discussions are better than the recent ones because they were argued out properly. Worth twenty minutes before adding to this one.
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