It's been a LONG week...
I started the new job on Tuesday..and it's been an eyeopening experience.

In my old position, I called Doctor's offices and tried to get them to switch their patients from no-preferred medications to preferred meds. Read: name brand to generics. Nurses and MA's would sigh when they heard me start my pitch and a doctor seldom took a "meanlingless fluff" call from us.

Just a sidnote: My company isn't the one who decided that you should take generics -- your benefit plan did..confused about who is who? There's US and then there is ..I won't mention a real company name...so let's use "Horizon". "Horizon" hires US to manage their drug benefit program. "Horizon" decides if you can take generics or name-brand meds, we just enforce their plan. Or try to.

Anyway, that was my OLD job. My NEW job is the complete opposite of what I had been doing. Instead of calling doctors and getting them to switch to generics, I GET calls from doctors who are requesting that their patients be allowed to take name-brand meds instead of the generic.

That's all the explanation that I can give right now -- since I'm still trying to figure it all out myself. But so far, it has been an interesting experience. Intersting and exhausting. There is SO much to remember...so many rules that need to be followed and just as many exceptions to the rules...it just makes your head spin. Tonight is the latest I've been up all week...normally by midnight, I'm asleep.

In other news...we are looking for a contractor who can come look at the house I mentioned in my last post. There are some structural changes that we would like to make and we need to know how much they're going to run. We're also trying to figure out a way to come up with a downpayment. But we'll worry about that later.

Speaking of later...that's when I'll post more. I'm wiped. You may go about your lives now.


- posted by Kim @ 2:18 AM