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Article: LARGEST HMO SAYS NO TO COVERAGE FOR COSTLY DRUG VIAGRA.(News)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- June 20, 1998
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Kaiser Permanente, the nation's largest health maintenance organization, said yesterday it will not pay for Viagra, the controversial new drug that treats male impotence.
The decision is likely to influence how HMOs across the country decide whether to provide coverage for Viagra, a problem that some HMO executives are calling ``Viagravation.''
Kaiser's decision made the 9.1 million-member health maintenance organization the latest insurer to refuse to cover the impotence pill. Earlier this week, Aetna U.S. Healthcare said it wouldn't pay for Viagra. Aetna, a health insurer, covers nearly 14 million people.
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