{"id":3254,"date":"2016-06-18T04:46:16","date_gmt":"2016-06-18T08:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=3254"},"modified":"2016-06-17T10:47:44","modified_gmt":"2016-06-17T14:47:44","slug":"what-is-step-therapy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=3254","title":{"rendered":"What is Step Therapy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman;\">Step therapy as defined by North Carolina\u2019s bill (House Bill 1048 passed by the House, but not the Senate) an approach \u201cunder which patients are required to try one or more prescription drugs before coverage is provided for a drug selected by the patient\u2019s health care provider.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northcarolinahealthnews.org\/2016\/06\/17\/patient-advocates-push-for-limits-on-step-therapy-prescription-practices\/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A+Daily+Health+Policy+Report&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=30724920&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9AHJCRXR-jSsj6Y822-Nc4mAEkbgQY7jiNtD_jUdMSg3nOpoHWh_F2nQRh4xNepDDuTNULtRPv8ZsSfe0BXy9h5RoAPw&amp;_hsmi=30724920\" target=\"_blank\">Read article here\u2026\u2026<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice<\/strong>: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Step therapy as defined by North Carolina\u2019s bill (House Bill 1048 passed by the House, but not the Senate) an<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legislative-update","category-part-dprescription-drugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3254"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3255,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3254\/revisions\/3255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}