CMS May Expand Opioid Abuse Measures To Other Classes In Part D, Insurers Told
This article was originally published in The Pink Sheet Daily
Executive Summary
At the AHIP Medicare conference, CMS official Andrea Bendewald presents preliminary data indicating the agency’s measures for preventing opioid abuse are having the desired effect. She also discusses formulary edits in the upcoming 2014 Part D plans aimed at curtailing overuse of opioids and other “high risk medications.”