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    I was having a really bad morning. My trunk wasn't closing, I had to give two dogs baths before work and clean up the house from the diarrhea that they had, I lost my work id walking to work, and I was 15 minutes late. I walked into my office and overheard one of the supervisors arguing on the phone with someone. "We keep changing this member's gender to female, because that's what they say they are and we figure they know best. But someone in your department keeps changing it to male! This has happened nine times already!" My day immediately got better, because as bad as my morning was, at least I hadn't changed gender 18 times.
    No, Buzz. I AM your hotdog in pajamas!
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    i would hope not!
    i can imagine that would leave you feeling kinda sore.

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    • #3
      I've had to tell patients many times that their insurance company has them (or more often, their kids) down as the wrong gender. Once I even had to inform a patient that they were refusing to pay for her birth control because they thought she was a he and saw no reason to pay for a man not to become pregnant. Never heard of an insurance company actually transsexualizing anyone before though... heck, just getting them to pay for necessary surgery is often difficult.

      Problem from our end is, if a patient is listed with the wrong gender, date of birth, spelling of name etc., we have to match that in our computers or the prescription will be rejected by the payor.

      (Just today I filled a prescription for Clomid for a male patient. Clomid is normally used for fertility treatments in women. His insurance is refusing to pay for it, probably because they don't pay for fertility treatments in general and certainly don't expect this guy to become pregnant no matter what he takes. Fortunately the generic is cheap enough at the wholesale level that we can give him a decent cash price and still make a little profit, without gouging him like the chains would.)

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      • #4
        Quoth Shalom View Post
        (Just today I filled a prescription for Clomid for a male patient.
        FIFY

        but yeesh. even a non-doctor can easily see from that link that it DOES have a use for men as well as women.

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