tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2007 Issue 28

PHARMACISTS: Step Up Communications With Docs To Keep Payments Steady

Promoting generics when appropriate can help.A new study suggests that helping physicians navigate Part D formularies may pay big dividends for community pharmacists.Many times, doctors are still spinning their wheels trying to sort out plan formularies, say the authors of the study. That spells trouble for pharmacists, who wind up trying to help beneficiaries cope when they show up at the pharmacy with a prescription for a needed--but noncovered--drug.The study, published June 20 in the Journal of the American Medical Association (Vol. 297, No. 23), reveals that docs have trouble finding out which prescription drugs are...

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