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Last Monday morning, while I was getting my breakfast to take up to my office, I got a call from the insurance company that manages my medications: My appeal of its decision not to reauthorize my prescription of the antidepressant Pristiq was denied. I managed to keep from spilling my coffee and headed up to my office where I closed the door, and the tears spilled.
The American Academy of Family Physicians states that “Utilization management can…
