New comments outline ways to protect patients from health plans and PBMs who profit from patient assistance

PhRMA submittedcomments this week in response to the Department of Health& Human Services (HHS) proposed rule on the Nondiscrimination in Health Programs and Activities. As outlined in our comments, PhRMA supports many policies in the proposed rule that aim to combat discrimination in health programs and activities, including broad application of nondiscrimination provisions, promoting health equity and preventing discriminatory benefit designs. PhRMA also urges HHS to ensure patients are adequately protected from discriminatory health plan features that are used by health plans, pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) and related entities to exploit cost-sharing assistance or patient assistance programs to benefit their bottom lines.
Source: The Catalyst - Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Tags: Health Insurance Out-of-Pocket Costs Pharmacy Benefit Managers Equity Source Type: news