Danny Jones

You can, it's just not gonna be covered by insurance.

And how do we decide what's covered by insurance?

You have to go through this entire FDA approval process.

And then you have to create a bill code and it has to be indicated for a certain,

treatment modality right and so back to testosterone why is testosterone not covered by insurance it is if you're considered clinically low how do you get a diagnosis of clinically low a primary care is typically not going to give you that so you go to your primary and this is this system they're not even going to give you that blood test they'll if they get an initial low reading they're going to refer you out to an endocrinologist or a urologist got it

And then that in this system can take anywhere from six to nine months to get in with that doctor.

And then your insurance is typically gonna deny it.

And you're gonna have to have your primary care write a letter and argue with the insurance company.

Now I can finally go to my, this is exactly my experience.

Primary care goes, yeah, everything looks good.

He wasn't even looking at my testosterone, never had pulled my testosterone.

I'm 25% body fat, high cholesterol on the cusp of diabetes.

He was gonna put me on a pre-diabetes medication and some of these other things, but never looked at my testosterone.

And then it's like, it was my nutritionist who said, you need to go to a urologist.

So it took me about six months to get my primary care to get me in with a urologist.

Then I go into the urologist and you have to go fasted and you have to do a blood draw.

Then it took two weeks to get that blood work back.

Then the blood work comes back and my testosterone was 90.

which is crazy.

You have to have two fasted blood draws before my insurance carrier would cover it, which is pretty common.