User:Andjela.kaur/Step therapy

Opponents[edit]
Opponents of step therapy, such as Fail First Hurts, have detailed the pitfalls of step therapy. "Fail First is used by health insurers to control costs.It is time-consuming from a physician and patient standpoint, is more expensive from a direct and indirect out-of-pocket cost perspective, denies patients the drugs they need when they need them, and allows payers to practice medicine without a license." They claim that it also has the following disadvantages:


 * Creating additional barriers, leading people to forgo needed medications
 * Possibly causing patients' medical conditions to deteriorate, increasing the need for later medical intervention in the future, thus making patients require increasingly-costly medical care
 * Increasing frustration and incidents of depression
 * Increasing the risk of non-compliance and self-medication