Step therapy is when Medicare Part D plans ask beneficiaries to try a more affordable drug before approving higher-cost prescriptions. In Medicare, Part D covers general prescription drugs, whereas ...

Everyone can feel down or anxious, even panicky or scared — these are all normal emotions. Situations can be testing or challenging and leave us feeling lost or in need of recovery. This is normal too ...

Even when doctors prescribe a medication, some insurance companies require you to try lower-cost drugs first, which could delay your ability to get the treatment you need. Samantha Rynearson was 21 ...

Insurers limit the use of certain prescription drugs by requiring step therapy—that is, by allowing access only after alternatives have been tried and have failed. Using data from seventeen of the ...

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Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Despite a mounting number of state-level laws enacted to protect vulnerable patients against step therapy ...

The Massachusetts House passed a bill which aims to curb the use of step therapy by health insurers. Drugs that are designated with a “step therapy” condition of reimbursement are only paid for by ...

The frequency with which 7 of the largest Medicare Advantage plans impose step therapy protocols in their Part B drug coverage decisions varies substantially. Objectives: First, to examine 7 large ...

As an educator, I spent my career helping students learn how to think and solve problems. To do this, I tapped into proven teaching methods to help them succeed in the classroom and worked to remove ...

Although there continues to be, for some, a stigma attached to psychotherapy, there is an alternative mental health "intervention" that seems to have received almost universal acceptance: what’s ...