Important Issues

The #FixDCPriorAuth campaign continues.

As the summer heat sets into DC, it is more critical than ever to remind the Council, Bowser administration, and public that prior authorizations harm care and real reform can be passed this year. One of the most effective ways to do this is to make it clear that prior authorizations harm all kinds of patient care. Often people have one or two personal experiences with a prior auth, but they may not realize that it touches every part of medicine.

To help make clear how widespread prior auths are, send us your stories about how a prior authorization impacted you, your patient, or your practice.

We will keep you anonymous (or share your name if you want) but we will use these stories to show policymakers, the media, and the public how important of an issue this is. We will also include them on our Prior Auth Reform page.

Below are some examples we have already collected. Send your examples to hay@msdc.org:

My patient was denied access to a particular birth control pill she had been on successfully before, and my office was told she needed to try and fail on 5 different generic pills before she could be approved. - OB/GYN

I spent 90 minutes of time with the prior authorization department and an additional 30 minutes with the pharmacy and the patient all because they changed their formulary and would not "grandfather him in". - Psychiatrist