Well, let me say this as gently as possible, with the most appropriate vocabulary choices I can muster, for a 70-yr-old college grad with a (previous generation) SAT English score in tbe mid-700s....here we go:
fuck the insurance companies.
(I am currently awaiting an approval for a med I have taken--and they have paid for--for about a decade. Because I had a stockpile, I haven't reordered recently. So now I need a preauthorization,
over a holiday weekend. After telling the CSR that she probably already knew she worked for morons, I said, "Well, I
was avoiding ordering it when I didn't need it. But since MY copay is only five or ten bucks, I will put it on auto-refill and you guys can pay
your share every month while I fill my cupboards with cases of the stuff.")
We have people here who fight insurance companies as a hobby/mitzvah. (I
usually fight for myself and family.) They mostly win, because insurance companies' primary responsibility is to their shareholders and their preferred coverage is almost never the best medicine.
Anyway, here's a chart, page 2, discussing types of iron infusions. I currently use Injectafer. It costs a fortune...like two grand a pop. But I have really good insurance. It takes 15 minutes. And you get two infusions, a week apart. (Way better than when I'd go weekly, for six weeks.)
http://www.injectafer.com/pdf/Treatment_Options_FCM192em.pdf