CMS Adopts Trial-Size Prescriptions For Part D, Delays Implementation

CMS has finalized a mandate that Medicare Part D prescription drug plans offer less than a 30-day supply of first-fill prescriptions at a daily cost-sharing rate, although it is delaying implementation until the 2014 plan year.

As originally conceived in a proposed rule on the Medicare drug benefit issued in October 2011, CMS sought to allow the offering of a “trial size” prescription of medications used...