copepmuscle said:
I doubt that what your doctor writes in their notes gets passed along to your insurer. From what I understand, aside from rare cases involving an appeal, the only information an insurance company receives is billing codes. So in my view, being open with your physician probably won't trigger any kind of punishment.
Semaglutide was prescribed to me by my doctor. The process began with fresh lab work and an attempt to get a baseline for insulin. Luckily, my A1C came back excellent — but that also meant Ozempic wouldn't be covered by insurance. We talked over what Wegovy costs and the possibility of using a compounding pharmacy.
After that, I visited a Gameday mens health clinic to look deeper into peptides. Even though their own testing showed my levels were normal, they kept pressing testosterone and wanted to raise it by 2x. Each time I declined, the pricing dropped. Once I turned the conversation toward peptides, they started pitching membership figures and so on. I checked out a few other clinics of that type and found them informative up to a certain point.
When I talked about all this with my doctor, he said [[Q1]] I mentioned peptides beyond the GLP1 I was already taking...
He then gave me a rundown of several peptides that look promising but aren't obtainable (reta). Another blood test was ordered by him...
I've never come right out and said [[Q2]] but he has a pretty clear idea to some degree, and as I said, he ordered blood work.
Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine, very polite, discusses care thoroughly, pounds on the laptop like it owes him money.
It’s genuinely baffling to show up at the doctor’s office and get this kind of reaction, especially when you consider how loudly they push obese patients to drop the weight.