Patient Advocates Sounding the Alarm Over Fail First

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has reversed a long-standing policy allowing Medicare Advantage plans to impose “step therapy” requirements for physician-administered drugs – also known as Medicare Part B.
More accurately described as “fail first,” this dangerous policy will force some patients to fail first on a medicine preferred by their insurance companies before they can receive the therapy prescribed by their doctors. Allo