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Inhalation Drug Dispensing Fees Likely to Drop

Published Thursday, September 01, 2005

Baltimore The 2006 dispensing fee for inhalation drugs will likely fall below the current $57 per month fee, CMS announced last month. Medicare payments for inhalation medications have undergone a number of changes in the past several years. In the most recent move, CMS replaced its average wholesale price formula with a formula based on average sales price plus 6 percent, as required by the Medicare Modernization Act. To compensate for the cost of delivering these therapies, the agency added a $57 monthly dispensing fee, or $80 per 90-day supply for 2005. Proposed changes to the 2006 physician ...

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