Healthline

What is Step Therapy and How Does it Affect the Medications You Take?

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 ...
Healthline

What’s the Step Therapy Insurance Process for Mounjaro?

Step therapy is a process your health insurance provider may require before it will cover certain drugs. Many insurance providers require step therapy for Mounjaro (a drug prescribed for type 2 ...
WGAL

Senate approves health care legislation on prior authorization, step therapy

SHUTDOWN LAURA FROM HARRISBURG THE STATE SENATE TODAY UNANIMOUSLY APPROVING LEGISLATION STREAMLINING THE PRIOR AUTHORIZATION AND STEP THERAPY PROCESSES FOR MEDICAL TREATMENT THAT MAY SOUND LIKE ...
Lupus Foundation of America

Policy Spotlight

For people with lupus, their relationship with their healthcare team is one of the most important aspects of managing their life with lupus. Step therapy imposes on that relationship in pursuit of ...
Fierce Healthcare

Study finds significant variation in how payers are using step therapy

Insurers' use of step therapy for specialty drugs varies widely, according to a new study. The analysis, led by researchers at Tufts University and published in Health Affairs, tracked the application ...
Chicago Tribune

Doctors and patients loathe ‘step therapy’ rules, but insurers say they’re necessary. An Illinois bill would prohibit the practice.

Kim Albin has lost count of the number of times she’s had to battle health insurance companies over medications. Albin, who has been living with multiple sclerosis for nearly 30 years, said health ...