Policy Changes In Part D Could Improve Patients’ Rx Adherence, Professor Argues

Former MedPAC member Bruce Stuart offers policy recommendations that would make medication therapy management programs in the Medicare Part D more effective, with the goal of improving medication adherence.

A former member of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, Bruce Stuart, is advocating for greater integration of medication therapy management into Medicare Part D, which he believes is not currently well designed for offering MTM services, but could go far in promoting patients’ adherence to medication therapy.

To that end, Stuart offered four policy suggestions for improving the program, including improving drug quality reporting, better use of drug utilization reviews, expanded use of MTM through criteria that bring in more patients and improving research in the area of medication adherence

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