Compliance:
Prior Authorization For Unrelated Drugs Required For Hospice Patients May 1
Published on Fri Mar 14, 2014
Hospices are already seeing preauthorization denials, they report. Some tweaks in Medicare’s new policy memo outlining Part D drug coverage for hospice patients may be an improvement over CMS’s first draft, but hospices still will face preauthorization for patients’ drugs starting May 1 — if they don’t already. Change: In a Dec. 6 memo on Part D coverage of drugs [...]