WASHINGTON, Feb. 13 --- Doctors and pharmacists say many drugs theoretically covered by the new Medicare drug benefit are not readily available because of insurers' restrictions and requirements.
Drug plans require doctors and patients to obtain "prior authorization" for certain drugs on their formularies.
The prescription drug plans are playing a dangerous game.
"That can't be right," Francis S. Soistman Jr., executive vice president of Coventry Health Care, said when asked about the forms on his company's Web site.
The site has 39 forms for doctors to use when prescribing certain drugs for Coventry Medicare plans, marketed under the name AdvantraRx.
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