North Carolina lawmakers are investigating insurers’ “fail first” policies, a common practice in which patients are required to first try and fail on an inferior, but cheaper, treatment before having access to the treatment prescribed to them. Fail-first protocols cause unnecessary delays in cancer patients’ treatment. Lawmakers will be considering both potential abuse practices and insurer savings in their open hearings, performing a cost-benefit analysis on patient protections. Read more developments here.
Last Updated on May 7, 2020 by Aimed Alliance
