The report evaluated 15 of the largest commercial formularies for prescription drugs in the U.S. to determine how they matched fair access criteria developed by ICER.

A new report attempts to pierce the veil of drug pricing and insurance coverage, an area that is marked by a lack of industry data and a surfeit of horror stories from consumers. Overall, the report noted the limitations of its conclusions but found that most payers seemed to be providing fair access for the drugs in the analysis, based on the available data.

The first annual “Barriers to Fair Access” report was released by the Institute for Clinical and Economic Review (ICER), a nonprofit research group that explores the effectiveness and value of prescription drug pricing.

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