Prescription Drugs and Blacklisting

[seep]

http://media.miamiherald.com/smedia/2009/03/28/19/Vista_Producer_Guide.source.prod_affiliate.56.pdf

The insurance company accidentally made their brokers' playbook publicly-accessible and the Miami Herald made it front page news:

http://www.miamiherald.com/323/story/973158.html

Page 31 of the pdf includes a partial list of meds that will get you automatically blacklisted. Salient examples are buprenorphine, quetiapine, morphine, oxycodone, chlorazepate (chlorazepate?), lithium, risperidone...

What's worse is that you can't even lie to them because they hire data miners that query pharmacy benefit managers for your prescription history. Presumably, everything you've ever bought from Walgreens, CVS, etc. is amassed into databases, permanently.

My hunch is that this document was basically pirated and edited/updated from similar document(s) from other companies, and that all these documents share a common ancestor. The upshot is that in the US, it's now a bad idea to get your psych, pain and w/d meds from an actual pharmacy. Ask your doctor for samples or bum your neighbor's mom's throw-aways. Or engineer your own insulin-producing e coli (not as easy as it sounds).

 

[Huaca]

Another good reason to self-medicate.

 

[toastedpanda]

I haven't read the whole .pdf yet, but it looks as though you can be blacklisted and denied insurance based on prescription history and other factors....?

Eww, I don't like the look of this.

 

[seep]

...it looks as though you can be blacklisted and denied insurance based on prescription history and other factors...

Asperger's, Tourette's, Narcolepsy, Acne (severe), Depression (severe), attendance at AA meetings (page 16), Bipolar Disorder (severity unspecified), any psychosis, any degree of drug use, anorexia, gynecomastasia, IBS, arthritis, precocious puberty, restless legs, and pretty much anything more severe than gulf war syndrome.