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  • Read more: Step therapy explained: An increasingly popular tool for cost control

    Step therapy explained: An increasingly popular tool for cost control

    News that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will allow Medicare Advantage programs to enact “step therapy” programs for drugs under Part B as part of an effort to combat rising drug prices has been making rounds in the health policy world recently. Step therapy is used by all major private insurers and is…

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  • Read more: The Co-Pay Coupon Controversy: Time for Detente?

    The Co-Pay Coupon Controversy: Time for Detente?

    By Kate Greenwood Cross-Posted at Health Reform Watch At the end of last month, the Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius made headlines when, in a letter addressed to Representative Jim McDermott (D-WA), she announced that “[qualified health plans], other programs related to the Federally-facilitated Marketplace, and other programs under Title I of…