Real-Time Drug Pricing Available to Medicare Providers in October

Providers that use certified IT systems would have access to up-to-the-minute price information and streamlined prior authorization requests.

Pharmacist Halina Jankowski at the Northside Pharmacy in Brooklyn, New York, June 18, 2014. Samira Bouaou/The Epoch Times

Medicare patients will have access to real-time prescription drug pricing and streamlined prior authorization decisions starting in October, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced Sept. 2.

That’s enabled by a new regulation that allows doctors with certified information technology systems to obtain up-to-the-minute pricing information.