CMS Wants To Let Medicare Plans Restrict Potential Drug Abusers To Single Pharmacy

Key CMS and officials from the HHS Office of Inspector General on Monday (June 24) recommended that Congress let plans restrict high-risk Medicare beneficiaries from using multiple pharmacies to curb "doctor shopping" and reduce prescription drug abuse, a policy that some Medicaid programs and commercial plans use for beneficiaries with "drug-seeking behavior." CMS Medicare Chief Jonathan Blum said Congress designed the Medicare Part D program to ensure access to drugs and now it should add safeguards against gaming the system,...