Author: Sharon O’Hara
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THE PODIUM | Let patients share in the savings on pricey prescription drugs
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With the gavel having fallen on the 2018 legislative session, Colorado lawmakers were once again unable to reach consensus on an effective plan for tackling the issue of high prescription drug costs. With patients spending more in out-of-pocket health care costs than ever before, let’s hope leaders on both sides of the aisle will place…
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O’Hara: Reform flawed “step therapy” to put patients first
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A significant burden to patients – and to health care providers – is the common insurance company practice of overriding a physician’s drug recommendation and requiring a patient to use, and fail on, a lower-cost drug before it will authorize use of the more expensive, physician-preferred, drug. Known as “step therapy” – or more commonly among…
