What makes us tick?

CoveragePending.com is a satirical health-policy publication dedicated to documenting the remarkable, often gravity-defying complexities of the American healthcare system. Our focus is simple: highlight the administrative innovations, pricing strategies, and procedural roadblocks that continue to mystify patients and healthcare professionals alike. We do not claim to understand how these systems work—only that they consistently don’t.

Our Unique Approach to Health Satire
Our reporting centers on the places where inefficiency meets creativity: prior authorizations that age like fine wine, formularies updated on a lunar cycle, billing practices that require divination, and pharmacy benefit structures that reward everyone except the person taking the medication. We explore the daily absurdities experienced by clinicians, staff, patients, and anyone who has ever been placed on hold “due to unexpectedly high call volume.”

CoveragePending is not medical advice, legal guidance, financial counseling, or emotional support. It is simply a collection of observations—some exaggerated, some not—about a system designed with great enthusiasm and maintained with even greater paperwork. Our audience includes policymakers, patients, physicians in practice and academia, all healthcare professionals who care about their patients, and anyone who has navigated a prior authorization and lived to tell the tale.