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Article: National Alliance for the Mentally Ill assails PacifiCare for restricting access to effective medications; harmful restrictive drug formulary could set standard for industry.
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- May 22, 1997
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ARLINGTON, Va.--(BW HealthWire)--May 22, 1997--"Caution, Your HMO May Be Dangerous To Your Health," is the lead for a full-page ad placed by the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI) in today's "Sacramento Bee" and in the "San Diego Union Tribune" and the "San Jose Mercury News" on Friday.
The group's ad expresses distress over PacifiCare's decision to restrict access to the most commonly prescribed psychiatric medications.
Earlier this year, PacifiCare, California's second largest health maintenance organization (HMO), removed two antidepressants. Prozac and Zoloft, and one antipsychotic, Risperdal, from its list of covered drugs -- a ...