Forbes September 23, 2024
Health insurance companies are beginning to pay for more prescriptions written by pharmacists as more states ease prescribing rules.
The expansion of reimbursement and health insurance coverage of prescriptions written by pharmacists comes following so-called “test to treat” legislation, which bestows prescribing status on pharmacists. Such state laws are sweeping the country as more lawmakers pass legislation that expands the role of pharmacists to prescribe certain medicines.
Health insurers see an opportunity to make sure their patients get needed prescriptions quicker in an effort to improve health outcomes. Thus, insurers are paying pharmacists as they have physicians in states where laws allow for such expanding prescribing.
Take Cigna, one of the nation’s largest health insurers, which recently began covering prescriptions...
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