CMS is seeing a surprising number of requestss from Part D plan sponsors to drop coverage of some drugs in mid-year. CMS frowns on such changes, and the agency isn't sure why it is seeing so many requests. Manufacturers better get used to it, though: tighter formularies are coming to Medicare.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is seeing an unexpected increase in the number of mid-year formulary changes being implemented by Medicare prescription drug plans in 2007.
CMS Center for Beneficiary Choices Director Abby Block told a Medicare operations conference sponsored by America’s Health Insurance Plans on...
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