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Sunday, October 22, 2017

Pressure mounts on insurance companies to consider their role in opioid epidemic

A prominent Democratic lawmaker asked major health insurers whether their policies and preferred prescription drug lists have made the nation’s opioid epidemic worse.
Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., the ranking member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, wrote to the companies after an article by ProPublica and The New York Times found that insurance companies sometimes favor cheaper, more addictive opioids over less addictive, but more expensive, alternatives.

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