MedPage Today reports Sens. Charles Grassley (R-IA) and Herb Kohl (D-WI) ?have urged the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to take a closer look at potential over-prescribing of atypical antipsychotics to nursing home residents.? In a letter to CMS administrator Donald Berwick, MD, Grassley and Kohl request ?that CMS investigate what role pharmacy benefit managers ? who manage prescription drug coverage for Medicare beneficiaries living in nursing homes ? play in fueling the possible overuse of atypical antipsychotics in elderly people in long-term-care facilities.? MedPage Today notes, ?The letter is a follow-up to one the senators sent in May after the release of the OIG report, which the senators themselves requested.?
From the American Association for Justice news release.
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