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Categorize PA Drugs As Unrelated With One Simple Word

Published on Thu Jul 24, 2014

Warning: But your clinical documentation had better tell the whole story. You may be cheering Medicare’s move to eliminate prior authorization for all but the most-covered drugs for hospice patients, but you still need to follow PA procedures for four commonly used meds. Limiting PA to just four drugs — analgesics, antinauseants (antiemetics), laxatives, and antianxiety drugs (anxiolytics) — will [...]
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