CMS Embraces Nonmedical Switching and Copay Accumulator Policies
In the 2020 Notice of Benefit and Payment Parameters, CMS has proposed to allow marketplace plans to implement copay accumulator…
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Ohio Hospitals Risk Patient Health With Nonmedical Switching Policies
Aimed Alliance counsel Stacey L. Worthy explains how Ohio hospitals seeking cost savings by forcing stable patients to switch medications…
EP200: Shenanigans to Deny Coverage for Evidence-Based Treatments, by Stacey Richter
Today I speak with Stacey L. Worthy, Esq, a partner over at DCBA Law & Policy. She’s a former executive director of the Alliance for the Adoption of Innovations in Medicine (Aimed Alliance) that aimed, among other things, to curtail non–evidence-based medication switching and insurance processes designed to make it difficult for patients to get coverage for medications/treatments that are clinically appropriate.
New York Patients Are Being Forced Off Prescribed Medications During the Plan Year, Providing A Need for New Legislation to Fix the Problem
Global Healthy Living Foundation survey finds nearly all respondents (98.2%) support legislation prohibiting insurance companies from financially pressuring them to…
Aimed Alliance Op-Ed in The Washington Examiner Describes the Negative Impact of Non-Medical Switching on U.S. Businesses
The Washington Examiner published an op-ed by Aimed Alliance’s Executive Director, Stacey L. Worthy. Ms. Worthy describes how interrupting an…
