Thread by @purplemamabear

Dear @OptumRx & @SanfordHealth you are NOT his #physician. You know nothing of his #health hx. Two years ago #Sanford #Bismarck #pain clinic pulled all #patients off #opioid #pain medications. This was not #patientcentered care, but care deemed appropriate BY administrators 1

Now @OptumRx & @SanfordHealth #insurance sending out letters re #opioid #pain #medications. My son had to move from a #Sanford clinic to another clinic due to #abandonment. Yep, abandonment. Plain & simple what you did was harmful & not based on #patients needs. You need 2

to look at research, that shows the harms of what u r doing. @SanfordHealth administration in Bismarck informed me 2 years ago when all #patients pulled off #opioids that it was the ‘national standard’ of care established by @CDCInjury @CDCDirector. The guidelines are NOT 3/

standard of care. Furthermore my son sees a #pain specialist. The guidelines were focused on #PCP. You continue to mess with my families care, yet have no knowledge of Hx, needs, health issues. Please @LelenaPeacock @ibdgirl76 @eileendove910 @kris_lovaas @aander1987 4/

@PainPtFightBack @hope411adcock @Pain_Speaking if you can tag relevant information to provide @SanfordHealth & @OptumRx with some education I’d appreciate. My kids were lamenting about receiving this letter. They talked about how exhausting it is to have to jump thru 5/

all the hoops that have been erected to stop 🛑 people from access medications prescribed by their doctors; pee tests, medication 💊 counts, pain contracts, administrators who are clueless & not concerned about ind #patient outcomes just goal of decreased #opioids, #PBMs such 6/

as @OptumRx that does NOTHING for #patients except limits access, implements step therapy & tags 🏷 on additional costs. #PBMs need to be outlawed. @SanfordHealth & #insurance is a #monopoly & because it is they have gotten a way with a lot. It’s NOT about #patient care for 7/

them, you don’t pull hundreds of inds off #pain medications all at once, this action was blatant abandonment that they got away with. #Enough you need to focus on needs of #patients. My kids physician goes through the risks. @SenJohnHoeven @SenKevinCramer @RepArmstrongND 8/

That #NorthDakota residents have been removed from their #pain medications by administrative decisions, #PBMs & insurance is NOT #patientcentered care. There are times when #opioids are necessary. 9/