tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2006 Issue 18

PRESCRIPTION DRUGS: No Backup Source For Providers Who Rely On CAP Vendor For Drugs

This CAP has only one featherThe Competitive Acquisition Program (CAP) for Part B drugs looks less and less attractive all the time. CAP was supposed to solve all of providers' drug-stocking woes, by enlisting the aid of private pharmacy companies. Then the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services came up with an overcomplicated program that required providers to plan chemotherapy and other drug administration in advance with no flexibility. And now the CAP has undergone a couple more setbacks.The program missed a deadline to issue enrollment instructions to physicians (CMS says the enrollment info is coming shortly). And...

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