Bharat Desai is an internal medicine and pulmonary physician.
It started with a phone call.
“Doc,” my CEO said, “do you know this doctor?”
I asked why.
“He wrote a prescription for a drug that cost $250,000 for one course.”
“You must mean $25,000,” I said.
“No,” she replied. “The insurer already paid two hundred fifty thousand dollars.”
I assumed it had to be a miracle therapy, some one-in-a-million life-saving treatment. Then she told me the name: Acthar Gel. I nearly fell out of my …
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