President's Budget Tracks With House Push For Pharmacy Lock-In Policies

By Michelle M. Stein / February 4, 2015 at 4:14 PM
Falling in line with the House Energy & Commerce Committee's 21st Century Cures draft, President Barack Obama's fiscal 2016 budget for the first time includes a proposal to lock Medicare beneficiaries at a high risk of substance abuse into certain pharmacies or prescribers to cut down on drug abuse, and some following the issue say given the bipartisan and administrative support the issue is not expected to go away any time soon. Beneficiary lock-in programs are used in commercial and...

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