Hospice:
Hospices Win Relief From PA Edits On All But 4 Drugs
Published on Thu Jul 24, 2014
Prior auth is still in effect for analgesics, antinauseants, laxatives, and antianxiety drugs. Months of frustration over prior authorization for hospice patients’ medications should ease with new CMS guidance on the matter. In a July 18 memo to Part D sponsors, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services “strong-ly suggests” that the drug plans drop PA edits for hospice patients’ [...]