Guidance on Part D Coverage of Hospice Drugs
CMS has issued a final memo providing guidance for Part D sponsors and hospices as it relates to payment for drugs for hospice beneficiaries in 2014. The effective date of this policy clarification is May 1, 2014 and will be
Painful prescription: Pharmacy benefit managers make out better than their customers
In late 2008, Meridian Health Systems, a nonprofit that owns and operates six hospitals in southern New Jersey, hired a new pharmacy benefits management (PBM) company to help reduce the surging medication costs for its 12,000 employees and their families.