This article is part of a Health Affairs Forefront featured series, “Assessing The Evidence For MA Reform.” The series was developed and supported by the research firm, Stage Analytics, through a ...

Step therapy occurs when your insurer requires you to use medication alternatives before another, possibly more expensive, treatment option. Depending on specific factors, you can work with your ...

Compared with usual care, stepping down antihypertensive therapy in nursing home patients aged 80 years and older did not yield any reduction in major adverse events or correlate with any other ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Step therapy, a controversial payer policy, can cause treatment delays and contribute to physician burnout.

Before insurance plans will approve doctor-recommended medication, they often require patients to try cheaper alternatives in what is known as step therapy. NBC News’s Maggie Vespa reports on a ...

A national survey of IBD patients showed that young adults were more likely than those in other age groups to encounter insurance-mandated step therapy. Young adults were more likely to report low ...