Endometriosis – Insurance

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When you’re dealing with the insurance companies in regards to birth control, taking the birth control pills, typically that doesn’t take much interference with insurance companies. However, when you oftentimes use Depolupron, you do have to get it authorized or get what we call a prior authorization. So that may take a couple of weeks. In addition, if you have any type of surgical intervention, laparoscopy, and or a hysterectomy, whichever modality is chosen to perform the hysterectomy, again, that has to be approved by a prior authorization from your insurance companies. So those things we have to take into consideration.