This link is to an article I had written about a patient whose medication had been denied by his Medicare prescription drug policy. It took all summer that year to get the drug approved. The insurer actually demanded that we try 4 non-FDA approved medications for this patient’s restless legs before they would approve what I had informed them had been working. Needless to say, I wouldn’t comply with such ludicrous demands and fought them and won. The article gives that account.
http://www.physicianspractice.com/articles/underdog-doc-takes-payers-patient