Ways & Means Narrows The Scope Of Medicare Anti-Fraud Bill's Pharmacy Lock-In Program

By Michelle M. Stein / February 26, 2015 at 9:01 PM
The House Ways & Means Committee narrowed the scope of its earlier proposal to lock some beneficiaries into certain pharmacies and providers or “safe pharmacies networks” as the committee marked up the Protecting the Integrity of Medicare Act Thursday (Feb. 26), but otherwise made few changes to the broad anti-fraud bill before unanimously passing it out of committee. The National Coalition on Health Care has called for the legislation to be swiftly moved through the House and Senate, and AARP...


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