Tag Archives: essential health benefits

Are US and Canadian Rx Policies Converging?

By Guest Blogger | Published: March 19, 2013
by Tom Norton As the US pharmaceutical industry anxiously watches the rapid onset of Obamacare, certainly one of the more pressing issues is the debate over the number of drugs that will be reimbursed in each therapeutic class under the Essential Health Benefits (EHB) program.  To say that this is a critical concern for the future [...]
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Pharma Gains from Rule On Health Insurance Benefits

By Jill Wechsler | Published: November 28, 2012
Recent change likely to boost drug coverage by plans, but with variation in formularies. Health plans offering coverage to individuals and small companies are more likely to cover multiple drugs in each class or category under revised regulations proposed by the Department of Health and Human Services in November. A key change in rules to implement [...]
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The Bare Essentials: One Way of Looking at HHS's Latest Pitch

By Clark Herman | Published: November 27, 2012
Last Tuesday, HHS proposed regulations that, most notably, shed light on one of ACA’s centerpieces: gutting the insurance industry’s ability to limit coverage based on pre-existing conditions, and establishing new criteria for evaluating eligibility.
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