{"id":9317,"date":"2018-01-21T05:00:36","date_gmt":"2018-01-21T10:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=9317"},"modified":"2018-01-19T09:16:40","modified_gmt":"2018-01-19T14:16:40","slug":"humana-faces-backlash-for-hiking-breast-cancer-drug-copays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=9317","title":{"rendered":"Humana faces backlash for hiking breast cancer drug copays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Morgan Haefner for <em>Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>Humana recently reclassified Herceptin \u2014 an intravenous drug used to treat metastatic breast cancer \u2014 as a nonpreferred drug in some Florida markets,\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/cbs12.com\/news\/local\/insurance-company-reclassifies-cancer-survivors-lifesaving-drug\">CBS12<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>reports. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beckershospitalreview.com\/payer-issues\/humana-faces-backlash-for-raising-breast-cancer-drug-copays.html\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/7227528-Syringes-and-needles-Stock-Photo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7859\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/7227528-Syringes-and-needles-Stock-Photo-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/7227528-Syringes-and-needles-Stock-Photo-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/7227528-Syringes-and-needles-Stock-Photo-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/7227528-Syringes-and-needles-Stock-Photo-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/7227528-Syringes-and-needles-Stock-Photo.jpg 1300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre>Notice: 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<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Morgan Haefner for Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review) Humana recently reclassified Herceptin \u2014 an intravenous drug used to treat metastatic breast<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-finance","category-part-dprescription-drugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9317","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9317"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9318,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9317\/revisions\/9318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}