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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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