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Medicare part D benefit may facilitate formulary appeals.(Practice Trends)

Publication: Skin & Allergy News

Publication Date: 01-JUL-05

Author: Silverman, Jennifer
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COPYRIGHT 2005 International Medical News Group

WASHINGTON -- Patients may find it easier to appeal denials of payment for medications under Medicare's new Part D prescription drug benefit than they do under other health programs, an analyst said during a meeting of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission.

Specifically, the new benefit offers quicker alternatives to getting formulary exceptions for nonpreferred drugs than private plans or Medicaid, Joan Sokolovsky, Ph.D., a MedPAC senior...

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