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Article: HMOs cut or reduce Viagra coverage
- Article from:
- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- June 20, 1998
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Kaiser Permanente, the nation's largest health maintenance
organization, said yesterday it would not pay for Viagra, the
controversial new drug that treats male impotence.
The decision will probably influence how HMOs across the country
deal with the thorny issue of whether to provide coverage for Viagra,
a problem that some HMO executives are calling "Viagravation."
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Massachusetts said yesterday that it
would pay for only four Viagra pills a month for each patient
diagnosed with impotence, down from 12. The decision follows a
similar move last week by Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, the largest
health maintenance organization in New England, to cut its coverage ...
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