When he was just seven years old, Lorenzo started to experience frequent pain and swelling in his joints that grew worse until it was an everyday occurrence. When the swelling in his knees and ankles ...

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.

Over the past two decades the use of step therapy or edits by health insurers has increased significantly. Step therapy, also called step edits, implies that in a given therapeutic class lower cost ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services recently sent shudders through the specialty drug market by authorizing Medicare Advantage Plans to use step therapy protocols for Part B drugs. The ...

Insurers limit the use of certain prescription drugs by requiring step therapy—that is, by allowing access only after alternatives have been tried and have failed. Using data from seventeen of the ...

The University Orthopaedic Center (UOC) houses the state’s largest hand and upper extremity therapy clinic in the Mountain West. This state-of-the-art hand therapy clinic is located on site with the ...

A six-step hand-washing process developed by the World Health Organization (WHO) is more effective than the three-step approach suggested by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a study has ...