Narrowing Part D Protected Classes Won’t Be Proposed Again – Tavenner

CMS Administrator Tavenner provides public assurances that the agency will not reintroduce a proposal to remove antidepressants, antipsychotics and immunosuppressants from protected status in the Medicare Part D program.

CMS Administrator Marilyn Tavenner pledged at a recent congressional hearing that the agency’s controversial proposal to eliminate some of the Medicare Part D protected classes will not be reintroduced on her watch.

“I’m not interested in bringing back the [Part D proposal regarding] drug categories,” Tavenner told the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. Tavenner’s comments came in response to a question...

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