Prescription Data Used To Assess Consumers
By Ellen Nakashima
Health and life insurance companies have access to a powerful new tool for evaluating whether to cover individual consumers: a health "credit report" drawn from databases containing prescription drug records on more than 200 million Americans.

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*Blog Editor Note* The Joint Insurance Committee, a coalition of professional associations who look at reimbursement for practitioners has been monitoring this issue for some time. If you know that this has happened or is happening to your clients, please let us know.