Step therapy is an insurance company tool that requires patients to try and fail medications before agreeing to cover the health care provider’s initial treatment recommendation. Largely impacting patients with inflammatory bowel disease, step therapy focuses on the use of cost-saving treatments rather than effective, patient-centric care.
In addition to creating many patient hardships, this protocol allows insurance companies to disrupt the provider-patient relationship and dictate a patient’s course of treatment. Thankfully, the state of West Virginia has implemented a step therapy law that gives health care providers additional rights and opportunities to protect their patients.
This education module provides an overview of the step therapy law and provides step-by-step directions for how providers can leverage West Virginia's step therapy law to effectively advocate on behalf of their patients.
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Product features
Introduction to step therapy video.
West Virginia step therapy law and resources.
Local physician podcast.
Program advisors
- David Rubin, MD, AGAF, Chief medical advisor
- Peter Liang, MD, Medical advisor
- Avinash Ketwaroo, MD, Medical advisor
- Richa Shukla, MD, Medical advisor
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CME / Maintenance of Certification (MOC) Information
Accreditation and Designation Statement
The American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) Institute is accredited by the Accreditation Council
for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The AGA Institute designates this enduring material for a maximum of 34.75 AMA PRA Category
1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their
participation in the activity.
In accordance with the ACCME’s Standards for Commercial Support of Continuing Medical Education, all
faculty and planning partners must disclose any financial relationship(s) or other relationship(s) held
within the past 12 months. The AGA Institute implements a mechanism to identify and resolve all conflicts
of interest prior to delivering the educational activity to learners.
MOC Statement
Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component,
enables the participant to earn up to 34.75 MOC points in the American Board of Internal Medicine's (ABIM)
Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. Participants will earn MOC points equivalent to the amount of
CME credits claimed for the activity. It is the CME activity provider's responsibility to submit
participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit.
MOC/CME expiration date: July 12, 2021
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