Patients who for years have taken medications approved by the Food and Drug Administration to relieve their diabetic peripheral neuropathy are now being forced by their insurers to fail first on outdated drug regimens which aren’t even FDA-approved to treat their condition.

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Also known as "step" and "tier" programs designed to get everyone on the same cheap (and many outdated) drugs and routinely deny coverage of more commonly prescribed drugs just to save the company money.