Uncertainties aside, closing Medicare’s doughnut hole could help ease at least one headache cited by hospitalists: struggling to sort through hospitalized patients’ formularies to insure they can afford the drugs they need upon discharge—so they won’t end up back in the hospital. TH
Bryn Nelson is a freelance medical writer based in Seattle.
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