title: Is Step Therapy a Move In the Wrong Direction?
abstract: If insurers insist that doctors use older, lower-cost drugs first, the burden is on the health plan to respond to doctors' request for different medications quickly, nimbly, and appropriately. But quick and nimble do not often describe insurers' step-therapy efforts.
authors.forename: Joseph
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Burns
mesh_terms: D003363:Cost Control / Q000379:methods; D004358:Drug Therapy / Q000191:economics* / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D007348:Insurance, Health; D017211:Treatment Failure; D014481:United States