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Opinion: Fail First? Is This Any Way to Practice Medicine?
Aug 16th 2010 – 5:22AM
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(Aug. 16) -- Louisiana has become the most recent state to take action against a little understood abuse of the health care system that has been causing unnecessary suffering for patients for far too long. Recently, Gov. Bobby Jindal signed a new law protecting patients from the "fail first" approach to prescribing drugs....
Background on fail first
In managed medical care step therapy is an approach to prescription intended to control the costs and risks posed by prescription drugs.
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