Prior Authorization Requirements. Effective: 12/01/2015
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1 Effective: 12/01/2015 Updated 11/2015
2 ABILIFY MAINTENA ABILIFY MAINTENA DIAGNOSIS OF SCHIZOPHRENIA MUST BE 18 YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER DOCUMENTED HISTORY OF POOR ADHERENCE TO ORAL MEDICATIONS AND DOCUMENTATION THAT PATIENT EDUCATION TO IMPROVE ADHERENCE HAS BEEN ATTEMPTED. FAILURE ON, INTOLERANCE TO, OR CONTRAINDICATION TO TWO FORMULARY ALTERNATIVES (RISPERDAL CONSTA, ZYPREXA RELPREVV, INVEGA SUSTENNA), ONE OF WHICH MUST BE RISPERDAL CONSTA.
3 ABRAXANE ABRAXANE ALL MEDICALLY ACCEPTED INDICATIONS NOT OTHERWISE EXCLUDED FROM PART D DIAGNOSIS OF BREAST CANCER OR DIAGNOSIS OF LOCALLY ADVANCED OR METASTATIC NON-SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER (NSCLC) OR DIAGNOSIS OF METASTATIC ADENOCARCINOMA OF THE PANCREAS. HEMATOLOGIST OR ONCOLOGIST FOR BREAST CANCER - DOCUMENTATION OF FAILURE OF COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY FOR METASTATIC DISEASE OR RELAPSE WITHIN 6 MONTHS OF ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY AND DOCUMENTATION OF FAILURE ON, INTOLERANCE TO, OR CONTRAINDICATION TO ANTHRACYCLINE AND DOCUMENTATION OF FAILURE ON, INTOLERANCE TO, OR CONTRAINDICATION TO STANDARD PACLITAXEL THERAPY. FOR NSCLC - DOCUMENTATION OF ABRAXANE USED AS FIRST-LINE TREATMENT IN COMBINATION WITH CARBOPLATIN WHO ARE NOT CANDIDATES FOR CURATIVE SURGERY OR RADIATION THERAPY. FOR ADENOCARCINOMA OF PANCREAS - DOCUMENTATION OF USE IN COMBINATION WITH GEMCITABINE.
4 ACTEMRA ACTEMRA DX OF RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS MADE IN ACCORADANCE WITH THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF RHEUMATOLOGY CRITERIA FOR THE CLASSIFICATION AND DIAGNOSIS OF RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS AND DOCUMENATION OF THE NUMBER OF SWOLLEN OR TENDER JOINTS PRIOR TO INITIATING THERAPY WITH A MINIMUM DOCUMENTED JOINT COUNT OF GREATER THAN FOUR SWOLLEN OR TENDER JOINTS BASED ON A 28 JOINT COUNT OR GREATER THAN SIX SWOLLEN OR TENDER JOINTS BASED ON A JOINT COUNT. DX OF ACTIVE SYSTEMIC JUVENILE IDIOPATHIC ARTHRITIS (JIA). DX OF ACTIVE POLYARTICULAR JUVENILE IDIOPATHIC ARTHRITIS WITH AT LEAST 5 SWOLLEN OR TENDER JOINTS. FOR JIA OR POLYARTICULAR JUVENILE IDIOPATHIC ARTHRITIS- MUST BE 2 YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER RHEUMATOLOGIST 6 MONTHS INITIAL AND 1 YEAR CONTINUATION FOR RA: FAILURE ON, INTOLERANCE TO, OR CONTRAINDICATION TO HUMIRA AND ENBREL. FOR POLYARTICULAR JUVENILE IDIOPATHIC ARTHRITIS IN MEMBERS 4 YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER: FAILURE ON, INTOLERANCE TO, OR
5 CONTRAINDICATION TO HUMIRA AND ENBREL. FOR POLYARTICULAR JUVENILE IDIOPATHIC ARTHRITIS IN MEMBERS 2 TO 4 YEARS OF AGE: FAILURE ON, INTOLERANCE TO, OR CONTRAINDICATION TO ENBREL.
6 ACTEMRA SUBQ ACTEMRA DX OF RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS MADE IN ACCORADANCE WITH THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF RHEUMATOLOGY CRITERIA FOR THE CLASSIFICATION AND DIAGNOSIS OF RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS AND DOCUMENATION OF THE NUMBER OF SWOLLEN OR TENDER JOINTS PRIOR TO INITIATING THERAPY WITH A MINIMUM DOCUMENTED JOINT COUNT OF GREATER THAN FOUR SWOLLEN OR TENDER JOINTS BASED ON A 28 JOINT COUNT OR GREATER THAN SIX SWOLLEN OR TENDER JOINTS BASED ON A JOINT COUNT. MUST BE 18 YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER RHEUMATOLOGIST 6 MONTHS INITIAL AND 1 YEAR CONTINUATION FAILURE ON, INTOLERANCE TO, OR CONTRAINDICATION TO A MINIMUM 3 MONTH TRIAL OF HUMIRA AND ENBREL.
7 ACTIQ FENTANYL CITRATE DOCUMENTATION OF USE TO MANAGE BREAKTHROUGH CANCER PAIN IN PATIENTS WITH CANCER CONCOMITANT MORPHINE 60 MG/DAY OR MORE, TRANSDERMAL FENTANYL 25 MCG/H, OXYCODONE 30 MG/DAY, ORAL HYDROMORPHONE 8 MG/DAY, OR AN EQUIANALGESIC DOSE OF ANOTHER OPIOID FOR 1 WEEK OR LONGER.
8 ADEMPAS ADEMPAS WHO FUNCTIONAL CLASS II, III, OR IV SYMPTOMS AND EITHER DOCUMENTATION OF WHO GROUP 1 PULMONARY ARTERIAL HYPERTENSION OR CHRONIC THROMBOEMBOLIC PULMONARY HYPERTENSION (CTEPH) (WHO GROUP 4) WHICH IS INOPERABLE OR PREVIOUSLY TREATED SURGICALLY. CARDIOLOGIST OR PULMONOLOGIST 6 MONTHS CHRONIC-THROMBOEMBOLIC PULMONARY HYPERTENSION: DOCUMENTATION OF A BASELINE 6-MINUTE WALKING DISTANCE. 6 MONTH REAUTHORIZATION WILL REQUIRE DOCUMENTATION OF AN IMPROVEMENT IN 6-MINUTE WALKING DISTANCE FROM BASELINE OR IMPROVED OR STABLE DIAGNOSIS OF WHO FUNCTIONAL CLASS. PULMONARY ARTERIAL HYPERTENSION: DOCUMENTATION OF A BASELINE 6-MINUTE WALKING DISTANCE. FAILURE ON, INTOLERANCE TO, OR CONTRAINDICATION TO SILDENAFIL AND TRACLEER. 6 MONTH REAUTHORIZATION WILL REQUIRE DOCUMENTATION OF AN IMPROVEMENT IN 6- MINUTE WALKING DISTANCE FROM BASELINE OR IMPROVED OR STABLE DIAGNOSIS OF WHO FUNCTIONAL CLASS.
9 AFINITOR AFINITOR AFINITOR DISPERZ ALL MEDICALLY ACCEPTED INDICATIONS NOT OTHERWISE EXCLUDED FROM PART D DX OF RENAL CELL CARCINOMA. DX OF HORMONE-RECEPTOR POSITIVE, HER-2 NEGATIVE ADVANCED BREAST CANCER. DX OF PROGRESSIVE NEUROENDOCRINE TUMORS OF PANCREATIC ORIGIN (PNET) THAT IS UNRESCTABLE, LOCALLY ADVANCED OR METASTATIC. DX OF SUBEPENDYMAN GIANT CELL ASTROCYTOMA (SEGA) ASSOCIATED WITH TUBEROUS SCLEROSIS (TS) WHO REQUIRE THERAPEUTIC INTERVENTION BUT ARE NOT CANDIDATES FOR CURATIVE SURGICAL RESECTION. DX OF RENAL ANGIOMYOLIPOMA AND TUBUEROUS SCLEROSIS COMPLEX/SPORADIC LYMPHANGIOLEIOMYMATOSIS NOT REQUIRING IMMEDIATE SURGERY. ONCOLOGIST OR NEPHROLOGIST OR UROLOGIST 3 MONTHS FOR RENAL CELL CARCINOMA: THERAPEUTIC FAILURE ON, INTOLERANCE TO, OR CONTRAINDICATION TO SUTENT OR NEXAVAR. FOR BREAST CANCER: FAILURE ON, INTOLERANCE TO, OR CONTRAINDICATION TO PREVIOUS ENDOCRINE THERAPY TREATMENT AND AFINITOR MUST BE USED IN COMBINATION WITH AN
10 AROMATASE INHIBITOR. FOR RENAL ANGIOMYOLIPOMA AND TUBUEROUS SCLEROSIS COMPLEX/SPORADIC LYMPHANGIOLEIOMYMATOSIS: AT LEAST ONE ANGIOMYOLIPOMA OF GREATER THAN OR EQUAL TO 3CM IN LONGEST DIAMETER ON CT/MRI BASED ON LOCAL RADIOLOGY ASSESSMENT.
11 AKYNZEO AKYNZEO DOCUMENTATION OF USE FOR THE PREVENTION OF CHEMOTHERAPY-INDUCED NAUSEA AND VOMITING IN PATIENTS WHO ARE RECEIVING MODERATELY TO HIGHLY EMETOGENIC CHEMOTHERAPY, INCLUDING, BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO REGIMENS CONTAINING BENDAMUSTINE, CARBOPLATIN, CISPLATIN, CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE, DACARBAZINE, DOXORUBICIN, IFOSFAMIDE, IRINOTECAN, OXALIPLATIN, AND TEMOZOLOMIDE MUST BE 18 YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER
12 ALDURAZYME ALDURAZYME DX OF HURLER FORM OF MPS I OR HURLER-SCHEIE FORM OF MPS I OR SCHEIE FORM OF MPS WITH MODERATE TO SEVERE SYMPTOMS METABOLIC SPECIALIST WITH EXPERIENCE TREATING MUCOPOLYSACCHARIDOSIS
13 ALINIA ALINIA DOCUMENTATION OF DIARRHEA CAUSED BY GIARDIA LAMBLIA OR CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM
14 AMPYRA AMPYRA DIAGNOSIS OF REMITTING-REPLASING MS WITH DIFFICULTY AMBULATING WITH 25 FT TIMED GAIT TEST NEUROLOGIST 3 MONTHS CONCOMITANT THERAPY ON BETASERON, COPAXONE, OR AVONEX. REAUTHORIZATION WILL REQUIRE DOCUMENTATION OF AT LEAST A 10% IMPROVEMENT IN TIMED 25 FT GAIT TEST AS COMPARED TO BASE LINE.
15 ANTIPARKINSON AGENT HRM BENZTROPINE MESYLATE TRIHEXYPHENIDYL HCL DX OF EXTRAPYRAMIDAL SIDE EFFECTS (EPS) OR PARKINSON'S DISEASE ONLY APPLIES TO MEMBERS 65 YEARS OF AGE AND OLDER PRIOR AUTHORIZATION APPLIES ONLY TO MEMBERS 65 YEARS OF AGE AND OLDER WHO WILL BE EVALUATED FOR APPROPRIATE USE OF HIGH RISK MEDICATION. DIAGNOSIS OF EPS WILL REQUIRE FAILURE ON, INTOLERANCE TO, OR CONTRAINDICATION TO AMANTADINE. DIAGNOSIS OF PARKINSON'S WILL REQUIRE FAILURE ON, INTOLERANCE TO, OR CONTRAINDICATION TO TWO OF THE FOLLOWING: CARBIDOPA/LEVODOPA, PRAMIPEXOLE, ROPINIROLE.
16 APTIOM APTIOM DIAGNOSIS OF PARTIAL ONSET SEIZURES MUST BE 18 YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER NEUROLOGIST DOCUMENTATION OF FAILURE ON, INTOLERANCE TO, OR CONTRAINDICATION TO TWO FORMULARY ALTERNATIVES ONE OF WHICH MUST BE OXCARBAZEPINE. DOCUMENTATION OF CONCOMITANT USE WITH AT LEAST ONE OTHER FORMULARY ANTI-EPILEPTIC DRUG
17 ARALAST ARALAST NP PROLASTIN C DX OF PANACINAR EMPHYSEMA 6 MONTHS DOCUMENTATION OF A DECLINE IN FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME IN 1 SECOND (FEV1) DESPITE OPTIMAL MEDICAL THERAPY (BRONCHODILATORS, CORTICOSTEROIDS, OXYGEN IF INDICATED) AND DOCUMENTATION OF PHENOTYPE ASSOCIATED WITH CAUSING SERUM ALPHA 1-ANTITRYPSIN OF LESS THAN 80 MG/DL AND DOCUMENTATION OF AN ALPHA 1-ANTITRYPSIN SERUM LEVEL BELOW THE VALUE OF 35% OF NORMAL (LESS THAN 80 MG/DL).
18 ARANESP ARANESP ALL MEDICALLY ACCEPTED INDICATIONS NOT OTHERWISE EXCLUDED FROM PART D FOR NON-SURGICAL INDICATIONS: HEMOGLOBIN MUST BE LESS THAN 11GM/DL FOR NEW STARTS OR LESS THAN 12GM/DL FOR CONTINUATION OF THERAPY. DOCUMENTATION OF ADEQUATE IRON STORES W/ SERUM FERRITIN GREATER THAN 100 NG/ML OR TRANSFERRIN LEVEL SATURATION GREATER THAN 20%. TX OF SYMPTOMATIC ANEMIA OF CHRONIC RENAL INSUFFICIENCY, CHRONIC RENAL FAILURE, INCLUDING ESRD. TX OF SYMPTOMATIC ANEMIA IN AZT TREATED HIV INFECTED INDIVIDUALS - MUST HAVE ENDOGENOUS ERYTHROPOIETIN LEVELS OF 500MU/ML OR LESS AND AZT DOSES OF 4200MG/WEEK OR LESS. TX OF SYMPTOMATIC ANEMIA ASSOCIATE WITH HEP C - MUST BE ON INTERFERON OR PEGYLATED INTERFERON AND RIBIVRIN. TX OF ANEMIA IN NON-HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCY - MUST BE ON ANEMIA CAUSING CHEMO OR RECEIVED ANEMIA INDUCING CHEMO IN LAST 3 MONTHS. TX OF SYMPTOMATIC ANEMIA SECONDARY TO MDS - BASELINE ENDOGENOUS ERYTHROPOEITIN LEVEL OF 500MU/ML OR LESS. TX OF SYMPTOMATIC ANEMIA OF CHRONIC DISEASE - SEVERE COMORBIDITY AND IMPAIRMENTS TO ADL, EXERCISE INTOLERANCE, TACHYCARDIA AND SOB WITH MINIMAL ACTIVITY. TX OF ANEMIA IN MULTIPLE MYELOMA - DOCUMENTATION OF CHEMO OR TRANSFUSION DEPENDENCE OR RENAL INSUFFICIENCY. 3 MONTHS
19 FOR SURGICAL INDICATIONS: HEMOGLOBIN MUST BE GREATER THAN 10GM/DL BUT LESS THAN 13GM/DL. FOR ALLOGENEIC BLOOD TRANSFUSION IN ANEMIC INDIVIDUALS UNDERGOING SURGERY IN ELECTIVE NON CARDIAC, NON-VASCULAR SURGERY WHERE ANTICIPATED BLOOD LOSS IS GREATER THAN 2 UNITS AND NEED FOR TRANSFUSION IS ANTICIPATED. TREATMENT OF ANEMIC PATIENTS WHO ARE AT HIGH RISK FOR PERI-OPERATIVE BLOOD LOSS FROM ELECTIVE, NON-CARDIAC, OR NON-VASCULAR SURGERY TO REDUCE THE NEED FOR ALLOGENIC BLOOD TRANSFUSIONS.THIS DRUG MAY BE EITHER BUNDLED WITH AND COVERED UNDER END STAGE RENAL DISEASE DIALYSIS RELATED SERVICES OR COVERED UNDER MEDICARE D DEPENDING UPON THE CIRCUMSTANCES. INFORMATION MAY NEED TO BE SUBMITTED DESCRIBING THE USE AND SETTING OF THE DRUG TO MAKE THE DETERMINATION.
20 ARRANON ARRANON ALL MEDICALLY ACCEPTED INDICATIONS NOT OTHERWISE EXCLUDED FROM PART D DX OF T-CELL ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA (T-ALL) OT T-CELL LYMPHOBLASTIC LYMPHOMA (T-LBL) OR RELAPSED OR REFRACTORY ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA HEMATOLOGIST OR ONCOLOGIST FOR RELAPSED OR REFRACTORY LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA - DOCUMENTATION OF FAILURE TO RESPOND TO OR RELAPSE FOLLOWING TREATMENT WITH A MINIMUM OF 2 CHEMOTHERAPY REGIMENS
21 ARZERRA ARZERRA ALL MEDICALLY ACCEPTED INDICATIONS NOT OTHERWISE EXCLUDED FROM PART D DX OF CHRONIC LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA (CLL) HEMATOLOGIST OR ONCOLOGIST FAILURE ON, INTOLERANCE TO, OR CONTRAINDICATION TO CAMPATH AND FLUDARABINE OR RITUXAN
22 ASPARAGINASE ERWINAZE ALL MEDICALLY ACCEPTED INDICATIONS NOT OTHERWISE EXCLUDED FROM PART D DOCUMENTATION OF TREATMENT OF PATIENT WITH ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA (ALL) WHO HAS DEVELOPED A HYPERSENITIVITY TO E.COLI DERIVED ASPARAGINASE (PEGASPARGASE) HEMATOLOGIST OR ONCOLOGIST 6 MONTHS
23 AUBAGIO AUBAGIO DIAGNOSIS OF RELAPSING FORM OF MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS NEUROLOGIST FAILURE ON, INTOLERANCE TO, OR CONTRAINDICATION TO BETASERON AND COPAXONE
24 AVASTIN AVASTIN ALL MEDICALLY ACCEPTED INDICATIONS NOT OTHERWISE EXCLUDED FROM PART D DX OF METASTATIC RENAL CELL CARCINOMA WHEN USED IN COMBINATION WITH INTERFERON ALFA. DX OF GLIOBLASTOMA AS A SINGLE AGENT WHERE CANCER HAS PROGRESSED AFTER PRIOR TREATMENT. DX OF METASTATIC COLORECTAL CANCER WHEN GIVEN WITH 5-FU BASED CHEMOTHERAPY FOR FIRST OR SECOND LINE TREATMENT. DX OF METASTATIC COLORECTAL CANCER WITH FLUOROPYRIMIDINE-IRINOTECAN OR FLUOROPYRIMIDINE-OXALIPLATIN BASED CHEMOTHERAPY FOR SECOND LINE TREATMENT IN PATIENTS WHO HAVE PROGRESSED ON A FIRST LINE AVASTIN CONTAINING REGIMEN. DX OF ADVANCED NON-SQUAMOUS NON-SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER WHEN GIVEN IN COMBINATION WITH CARBOPLATIN OR PACLITAXEL AS FIRST LINE THERAPY IN UNRESECTABLE, LOCALLY ADVANCED, RECURRENT OR METASTATIC DISEASE. HEMATOLOGIST OR ONCOLOGIST
25 BELEODAQ BELEODAQ ALL MEDICALLY ACCEPTED INDICATIONS NOT OTHERWISE EXCLUDED FROM PART D DIAGNOSIS OF RELAPSED OR REFRACTORY PERIPHERAL T-CELL LYMPHOMA MUST BE 18 YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER ONCOLOGIST OR HEMATOLOGIST 6 MONTHS
26 BETHKIS BETHKIS DX OF CYSTIC FIBROSIS PULMONOLOGIST OR INFECTIOUS DISEASE SPECIALIST FAILURE ON, INTOLERANCE TO, OR CONTRAINDICATION TO GENERIC TOBRAMYCIN INHALATION SOLUTION
27 BONIVA IV BONIVA IBANDRONATE SODIUM DX OF OSTEOPOROSIS IN POSTMENOPAUSAL WOMEN INTOLERANCE TO ORAL BIPHOSPHONATES OR INABILITY TO REMAIN IN AN UPRIGHT POSITION FOR A MINIMUM OF MINUTES AFTER INGESTION OR DISRUPTION OF THE ALIMENTART TRACT DUE TO ANY OF THE FOLLOWING REASONS WHICH PRECLUDES THE USE OF ORAL BISPHOSPHONATES: OBSTRUCTING STRICTURE OR NEOPLASM OF THE ESOPHAGUS, STOMACH OR INTESTINE OR SHORT BOWEL SYNDROME SECONDARY TO EXTENSIVE SMALL BOWEL RESECTION OR MOTILITY DISORDER OR MALABSORPTION SECONDARY TO ENTEROVESICAL, ENTEROCUTANEOUS OR ENTEROCOLIC FISTULAS OR PROLONGED PARALYTIC ILEUS FOLLOWING SURGERY OR INJURY AND FAILURE ON, INTOLERANCE TO, OR CONTRAINDICATION TO RECLAST. THIS DRUG MAY BE EITHER BUNDLED WITH AND COVERED UNDER END STAGE RENAL DISEASE DIALYSIS RELATED SERVICES OR COVERED UNDER MEDICARE D DEPENDING UPON THE CIRCUMSTANCES. INFORMATION MAY NEED TO BE SUBMITTED DESCRIBING THE USE AND SETTING OF THE DRUG TO MAKE THE DETERMINATION.
28 BOSULIF BOSULIF ALL MEDICALLY ACCEPTED INDICATIONS NOT OTHERWISE EXCLUDED FROM PART D DOCUMENTATION OF CHRONIC, ACCELERATED, OR BLAST PHASE PH POSITIVE CHRONIC MYELOGENOUS LEUKEMIA (CML) HEMATOLOGIST OR ONCOLOGIST 3 MONTHS FAILURE ON, INTOLERANCE TO, OR CONTRAINDICATION TO ONE OF THE FOLLOWING PRIOR THERAPIES GLEEVEC, SPRYCEL, OR TASIGNA
29 BRINTELLIX BRINTELLIX ALL MEDICALLY ACCEPTED INDICATIONS NOT OTHERWISE EXCLUDED FROM PART D DIAGNOSIS OF MAJOR DEPRESSIVE DISORDER MUST BE AT LEAST 18 YEARS OF AGE DOCUMENTATION OF FAILURE ON, INTOLERANCE TO, OR CONTRAINDICATION TO AT LEAST TWO ANTIDEPRESSANT CLASSES.
30 BROVANA BROVANA DX OF COPD MUST BE 18 YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER FAILURE ON, INTOLERANCE TO, OR CONTRAINDICATION TO FORADIL AND SEREVENT OR DOCUMENTATION OF INABILITY TO USE AN INHALER.
31 BUTRANS BUTRANS DX OF MODERATE TO SEVERE CHRONIC PAIN REQUIRING A CONTINUOUS, AROUND-THE-CLOCK OPIOID ANALGESIC FOR AN EXTENDED PERIOD OF TIME. FAILURE ON, INTOLERANCE TO, OR CONTRAINDICATION TO TWO FORMULARY OPIOIDS, ONE OF WHICH MUST BE MORPHINE SULFATE ER.
32 BVD ONLY ABELCET ACETYLCYSTEINE ACYCLOVIR SODIUM ADRUCIL ALBUTEROL SULFATE AMBISOME AMINOSYN II AMINOSYN II WITH ELECTROLYTES AMINOSYN M AMINOSYN WITH ELECTROLYTES AMINOSYN-HBC AMINOSYN-PF AMINOSYN-RF AMPHOTERICIN B ANZEMET ASTAGRAF XL AZASAN AZATHIOPRINE BCG (TICE STRAIN) BLEOMYCIN SULFATE BUDESONIDE CELLCEPT CLADRIBINE CLINISOL CROMOLYN SODIUM CYCLOSPORINE CYCLOSPORINE MODIFIED CYTARABINE DEXTROSE IN WATER DOXORUBICIN HCL ENGERIX-B ADULT ENGERIX-B PEDIATRIC-ADOLESCENT FLUOROURACIL GANCICLOVIR SODIUM GENGRAF GRANISETRON HCL HERCEPTIN IFOSFAMIDE IMOVAX RABIES VACCINE INTRALIPID IPRATROPIUM BROMIDE IPRATROPIUM- ALBUTEROL KEPIVANCE LIPOSYN III METHOTREXATE MITOMYCIN MYCOPHENOLATE MOFETIL MYCOPHENOLIC ACID NEBUPENT NUTRILIPID ONDANSETRON HCL ONDANSETRON ODT PREMASOL PROGRAF PROSOL PULMICORT RABAVERT RAPAMUNE RECOMBIVAX HB SIMULECT SIROLIMUS TACROLIMUS TRAVASOL TROPHAMINE VINBLASTINE SULFATE VINCASAR PFS VINCRISTINE SULFATE THIS DRUG MAY BE COVERED UNDER MEDICARE PART B OR D DEPENDING UPON THE CIRCUMSTANCES. INFORMATION MAY NEED TO BE SUBMITTED DESCRIBING THE USE AND SETTING OF THE DRUG TO MAKE THE DETERMINATION.
33 CEREZYME CEREZYME DOCUMENTATION OF A DIAGNOSIS OF TYPE 1 GAUCHER DISEASE ALONG WITH AT LEAST ONE OF THE FOLLOWING CONDITIONS: ANEMIA, THROMBOCYTOPENIA, BONE DISEASE, HEPATOMEGALY OR SPLENOMEGALY METABOLIC SPECIALIST WITH EXPERIENCE TREATING GAUCHER DISEASE FAILURE ON, INTOLERANCE TO, OR CONTRAINDICATION TO ELELYSO
34 CIMZIA CIMZIA DIAGNOSIS OF RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS, CROHN'S DISEASE, ANKYLOSING SPONDYLITIS, OR PSORIATIC ARTHRITIS. FOR PSORIATIC ARTHRITIS DOCUMENTATION OF AT LEAST 3 SWOLLEN JOINTS AND AT LEAST 3 TENDER OR PAINFUL JOINTS AND DOCUMENTATION OF EITHER ACTIVE PSORIATIC LESIONS OR A DOCUMENTED HISTORY OF PSORIASIS. RHEUMATOLOGIST OR GASTROENTEROLOGIST 6 MONTHS INITIAL AND 1 YEAR CONTINUATION FOR RA, PSORIATIC ARTHRITIS, AND ANKYLOSING SPONDYLITIS: FAILURE ON, INTOLERANCE TO, OR CONTRAINDICATION TO ENBREL AND HUMIRA. FOR CROHN'S: FAILURE ON, INTOLERANCE TO, OR CONTRAINDICATION TO HUMIRA. FOR CONTINUED THERAPY, MEDICAL RECORD DOCUMENTATION SHOWING MAINTENANCE OR IMPROVEMENT OF CONDITION.
35 CINRYZE CINRYZE DX OF HEREDITARY ANGIOEDEMA WITH DOCUMENTATION OF RECURRENT, SELF- LIMITING NON-INFLAMMATORY SUBCUTANEOUS ANGIOEDEMA WITHOUT URTICARIA LASTING MORE THAN 12 HOURS OR LARNGEAL EDEMA OR RECURRENT SELF-REMITTING ADBOMINAL PAIN LASTING MORE THAN 6 HOURS WITHOUT CLEAR ORGANIC ETIOLGOY AND THE PRESENCE OF SPECIFIC ABNORMALITIES IN COMPLEMENT PROTEINS IN THE SETTING OF A SUGGESTIVE CLINICAL HISTORY OF EPISODIC ANGIOEDMEA WITHOUT ERTICARIA. ALLERGIST, IMMUNOLOGIST, HEMATOLOGIST OR DERMATOLOGIST MEDICATION IS USED AS PROPHYLACTIC THERAPY AND FAILURE ON, INTOLERANCE TO, OR CONTRAINDICATION TO DANAZOL AND HISTORY OF MORE THAN ONE SEVERE EVENT PER MONTH
36 CLOLAR CLOLAR ALL MEDICALLY ACCEPTED INDICATIONS NOT OTHERWISE EXCLUDED FROM PART D DX OF RELAPSED OR REFRACTORY ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA 1 TO 21 YEARS OF AGE HEMATOLOGIST OR ONCOLOGIST FAILURE ON, INTOLERANCE TO, OR CONTRAINDICATION TO TWO PRIOR TREATMENT REGIMENS
37 CLOMIPRAMINE HRM CLOMIPRAMINE HCL ONLY APPLIES TO MEMBERS 65 YEARS OF AGE AND OLDER PRIOR AUTHORIZATION APPLIES ONLY TO MEMBERS 65 YEARS OF AGE AND OLDER WHO WILL BE EVALUATED FOR APPROPRIATE USE OF HIGH RISK MEDICATION AND WILL FAILURE ON, INTOLERANCE TO, OR CONTRAINDICATION TO TWO OF THE FOLLOWING: FLUOXETINE, FLUVOXAMINE, SERTRALINE, PAROXETINE
38 COMETRIQ COMETRIQ ALL MEDICALLY ACCEPTED INDICATIONS NOT OTHERWISE EXCLUDED FROM PART D DIAGNOSIS OF PROGRESSIVE METASTATIC MEDULLARY THYROID CANCER ONCOLOGIST
39 CORLANOR CORLANOR DOCUMENTATION OF STABLE, SYMPTOMATIC HEART FAILURE WITH A LEFT VENTRICULAR EJECTION FRACTION LESS THAN OR EQUAL TO 35% AND DOCUMENTATION OF BEING IN SINUS RHYTHM WITH RESTING HEART RATE GREATER THAN OR EQUAL TO 70 BEATS PER MINUTE AND DOCUMENTATION OF HOSPITALIZATION FOR WORSENING HEART FAILURE WITHIN THE PREVIOUS 12 MONTHS CARDIOLOGIST FAILURE ON, INTOLERANCE TO, OR CONTRAINDICATION TO THE MAXIMUM TOLERATED DOSES OF TWO FORMULARY BETA-BLOCKERS ONE OF WHICH MUST BE CARVEDILOL
40 CORTICOSTEROID B VERSUS D DETERMINATION A-HYDROCORT CORTISONE ACETATE DEXAMETHASONE DEXAMETHASONE SODIUM PHOSPHATE HYDROCORTISONE METHYLPREDNISOLONE METHYLPREDNISOLONE ACETATE METHYLPREDNISOLONE SOD SUCC PREDNISOLONE SODIUM PHOSPHATE PREDNISONE SOLU-MEDROL VERIPRED 20 THIS DRUG MAY BE COVERED UNDER MEDICARE PART B OR D DEPENDING UPON THE CIRCUMSTANCES. INFORMATION MAY NEED TO BE SUBMITTED DESCRIBING THE USE AND SETTING OF THE DRUG TO MAKE THE DETERMINATION.
41 CRIZOTINIB XALKORI ALL MEDICALLY ACCEPTED INDICATIONS NOT OTHERWISE EXCLUDED FROM PART D DIAGNOSIS OF LOCALLY ADVANCED OR METASTATIC NON-SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER (NSCLC) THAT IS ANAPLASTIC LYMPHOMA KINASE (ALK) POSITIVE AS DETECTED BY AN FDA APPROVED TEST ONCOLOGIST 6 MONTHS THE FDA APPROVED TEST TO MAKE ALK POSITIVE DETERMINATION IS THE VYSIS ALK BREAK-APART FISH PROBE KIT
42 CYCLOSET CYCLOSET DIAGNOSIS OF TYPE 2 DIABETES MELLITUS. DOCUMENTATION OF FAILURE ON, INTOLERANCE TO, OR CONTRAINDICATION TO TWO ORAL FORMULARY ALTERNATIVES.
43 CYPROHEPTADINE HRM CYPROHEPTADINE HCL ONLY APPLIES TO MEMBERS 65 YEARS OF AGE AND OLDER PRIOR AUTHORIZATION APPLIES ONLY TO MEMBERS 65 YEARS OF AGE AND OLDER WHO WILL BE EVALUATED FOR APPROPRIATE USE OF HIGH RISK MEDICATION. DIAGNOSIS OF ALLERGIC CONDITIONS (PRURITUS, URTICARIA, SEASONAL OR PERENNIAL ALLERGIES) WILL REQUIRE FAILURE ON, INTOLERANCE TO, OR CONTRAINDICATION TO DESLORATADINE AND LEVOCETIRIZINE. USE FOR PROPHYLACTIC THERAPY FOR MIGRAINES WILL REQUIRE FAILURE ON, INTOLERANCE TO, OR CONTRAINDICATION TO TWO OTHER FORMULARY MIGRAINE PROPHYLACTIC AGENTS (FORMULARY BETA BLOCKER, TOPIRAMATE, DIVALPROEX, SODIUM VALPROATE, VENLAFAXINE, OR NORTRIPTYLINE).
44 CYRAMZA CYRAMZA ALL MEDICALLY ACCEPTED INDICATIONS NOT OTHERWISE EXCLUDED FROM PART D DOCUMENTATION OF ADVANCED OR METASTATIC, GASTRIC, OR GASTRO- ESOPHAGEAL JUNCTION ADENOCARCINOMA WITH DISEASE PROGRESSION ON OR AFTER PRIOR FLUOROPYRIMIDINE OR PLATINUM CONTAINING CHEMOTHERAPY. DOCUMENTATION OF USE IN COMBINATION WITH PACLITAXEL OR CLINICAL JUSTIFICATION FOR USE AS MONOTHERAPY. DIAGNOSIS OF METASTATIC NON SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER IN COMBINATION WITH DOCETAXEL IN THOSE WITH DISEASE PROGRESSION ON OR AFTER PLATINUM BASED CHEMOTHERAPY AND PATIENTS WITH EGFR OR ALK GENOMIC TUMOR ABERRATIONS MUST PROVIDE DOCUMENTATION OF DISEASE PROGRESSION ON FDA APPROVED THERAPIES FOR THESE ABERRATIONS PRIOR TO RECEIVING CYRAMZA. DOCUMENTATION OF METASTATIC COLON OR RECTAL CANCER WITH DISEASE PROGRESSION ON OR AFTER FOLFOX, CapeOX OR A REGIMEN NOT PREVIOUSLY CONTAINING IRINOTECAN AND DOCUMENTATION OF USE IN COMBINATION WITH IRINOTECAN OR FOLFIRI (FLUOROURACIL, LEUCOVORIN, AND IRINOTECAN). ONCOLOGIST 12 MONTHS
45 Geisinger Health Plan DOCUMENTATION OF AN EASTERN COOPERATIVE ONCOLOGY GROUP (ECOG) PERFORMANCE STATUS OF 0 OR 1 AND NO GRADE 3 OR HIGHER GI BLEEDING WITHIN PAST 3 MONTHS AND NO ARTERIAL THROMBOEMBOLIC EVENT, INCLUDING MI, UNSTABLE ANGINA, TIA, OR CVA, WITHIN PAST 6 MONTHS.
46 DACOGEN DECITABINE ALL MEDICALLY ACCEPTED INDICATIONS NOT OTHERWISE EXCLUDED FROM PART D DOCUMENTATION OF MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROME (MDS) INCLUDING PREVIOUSLY TREATED AND UNTREATED, DE NOVO AND SECONDARY MDS OF ALL FRENCH-AMERICAN-BRITISH SUBTYPES (REFRACTORY ANEMIA, REFRACTORY ANEMIA WITH RINGED SIDEROBLASTS, REFRACTORY ANEMIA WITH EXCESS BLASTS, REFRACTORY ANEMIA WITH EXCESS BLASTS IN TRANSFORMATION, AND CHRONIC MYELOMONOCYTIC LEUKEMIA) AND INTERMEDIATE-1, INTERMEDIATE- 2, AND HIGH RISK INTERNATIONAL PROGNOSTIC SCORING SYSTEM GROUPS HEMATOLOGIST OR ONCOLOGIST FAILURE ON, INTOLERANCE TO, OR CONTRAINDICATION TO VIDAZA
47 DALIRESP DALIRESP DIAGNOSIS OF COPD ASSOCIATED WITH CHRONIC BRONCHITIS CONCOMITANT USE OF, FAILURE ON, INTOLERANCE TO, OR CONTRAINDICATION TO SPIRIVA AND ONE LONG ACTING BETA AGONISTS.
48 DEMSER DEMSER TREATMENT OF PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA PREOPERATIVELY. TREATMENT OF PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA IN MANAGEMENT OF PATIENTS WHEN SURGERY IS CONTRAINDICATED. CHRONIC TREATMENT OF MALIGNANT PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA.
49 DUAVEE DUAVEE DOCUMENTATION OF AN INTACT UTERUS. DOCUMENTATION OF USE FOR ABNORMAL VASOMOTOR FUNCTION OR PREVENTION OF POSTMENOPAUSAL OSTEOPOROSIS AGE LESS THAN 75 YEARS FOR ABNORMAL VASOMOTOR FUNCTION: FAILURE ON, INTOLERANCE TO, OR CONTRAINDICATION TO FEMRING. FOR PREVENTION OF POSTMENOPAUSAL OSTEOPOROSIS: FAILURE ON, INTOLERANCE TO, OR CONTRAINDICATION TO TWO OF THE FOLLOWING: ALENDRONATE, IBANDRONATE, RALOXIFENE, RISEDRONATE.
50 ELAPRASE ELAPRASE DX OF HUNTER'S SYNDROME (MPS II) METABOLIC SPECIALIST WITH EXPERIENCE TREATING MPS II
51 ELELYSO ELELYSO DIAGNOSIS OF TYPE 1 GAUCHER DISEASE WITH AT LEAST ONE OF THE FOLLOWING - ANEMIA, THROMBOCYTOPENIA, BONE DISEASE, HEPATOMEGALY OR SPLENOMEGALY METABOLIC SPECIALIST WITH EXPERIENCE TREATING GAUCHER DISEASE
52 ELIDEL ELIDEL DX OF ATOPIC DERMATITIS DERMATOLOGIST OR ALLERGIST FAILURE ON, INTOLERANCE TO OR CONTRAINDICATION TO AT LEAST 2 FORMULARY TOPICAL CORTICOSTEROIDS UNLESS INADVISABLE DUE TO RISKS (SUCH AS USE ON SENSITIVE SKIN AREAS (FACE, AXILLAE, GROIN))
53 ELITEK ELITEK DX OF HYPERURICEMIA IN PATIENTS WITH LEUKEMIA, LYMPHOMA, AND SOLID TUMOR MALIGNANCIES HEMATOLOGIST OR ONCOLOGIST 1 COURSE OF THERAPY (5 DAYS) DOCUMENTATION OF A HIGH RISK OF TUMOR LYSIS SYNDROME CHARACTERIZED BY ELEVATED SERUM CREATININE OR LEUKEMIAS WITH VERY HIGH WHITE BLOOD CELL COUNTS OF GREATER THAN OR EQUAL TO 25,000 / MM(3) OR BURKETTE'S LYMPHOMA OR T-CELL NON-HODGKIN'S LYMPHOMA OR SERUM URIC ACID LEVEL GREATER THAN OR EQUAL TO 8 MG/DL AND FAILURE ON, INTOLERANCE TO, OR CONTRAINDICATION TO ORAL OR INJECTABLE ALLOPURINOL
54 ELOXATIN ELOXATIN ALL MEDICALLY ACCEPTED INDICATIONS NOT OTHERWISE EXCLUDED FROM PART D IN COMBO WITH 5FU & LEUCOVORIN FOR INITIAL TX OF ADVANCED COLORECTAL CANCER OR ADJUVANT TX OF STAGE III COLON CANCER FOR PATIENTS WHO HAVE UNDERGONE COMPLETE RESECTION OF THE PRIMARY TUMOR. PANCREATIC CANCER:2ND LINE THERAPY IN COMBO WITH CAPECITABINE OR 5FU. OVARIAN CANCER:AS TX FOR RECURRENCE IN PATIENTS WITH STAGE II, III OR IV EPITHELIAL OVARIAN CANCER WHO EXPERIENCED PARTIAL RESPONSES TO THEIR PRIMARY PACLITAXEL & PLATINUM-BASED CHEMO REGIMENS. ADVANCED GASTRIC CANCER. HEPATOBILIARY CANCER. RECTAL CANCER. ESOPHAGEAL CANCER. NON-HODGKINS LYMPHOMA- DIFFUSE LARGE B-CELL LYMPHOMA:AS 2ND LINE THERAPY FOR RELAPSED OR REFRACTORY DISEASE- FOLLICULAR LYMPHOMA & NODAL MARGINAL ZONE LYMPHOMA-2ND LINE THERAPY FOR REFRACTORY OR PROGRESSIVE DISEASE-GASTRIC MALT LYMPHOMA: 2ND LINE THERAPY FOR RECURRENT OR PROGRESSIVE DISEASE-MANTLE CELL LYMPHOMA:2ND LINE CHEMO FOR RELAPSED, REFRACTORY, OR PROGRESSIVE DISEASE-NON-GASTRIC MALT LYMPHOMA:2ND LINE THERAPY FOR RECURRENT (STAGE IE-II) OR PROGRESSIVE DISEASE-SPLENIC MARGINAL ZONE LYMPHOMA:2ND LINE CHEMO FOR PROGRESSIVE DISEASE. OVARIAN CANCER, EPITHELIAL OVARIAN CANCER:RECURRENCE THERAPY AS A SINGLE AGENT. TESTICULAR CANCER. HEMATOLOGIST OR ONCOLOGIST
55 Geisinger Health Plan 15226
56 EMEND EMEND ORAL CHEMOTHERAPY REGIMEN WITH MODERATE TO HIGH EMETOGENIC POTENTIAL OR INDICATION OF POSTOPERATIVE NAUSEA/VOMITING. HEMATOLOGIST, ONCOLOGIST, SURGEON MUST BE USED IN COMBINATION WITH OTHER ORAL ANTIEMETIC AGENTS WHEN USED FOR THE PREVENTION OF CHEMOTHERAPY INDUCED NAUSEA
57 ENBREL ENBREL ADULT RA - DIAGNOSIS OF RA MADE IN ACCORADANCE WITH THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF RHEUMATOLOGY CRITERIA FOR THE CLASSIFICATION AND DIAGNOSIS OF RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS AND A TRIAL OF MTX OR OTHER DMARD IF MTX NOT TOLERATED OR CONTRAINDICATED AND DOCUMENATION OF THE NUMBER OF SWOLLEN OR TENDER JOINTS PRIOR TO INITIATING THERAPY WITH A MINIMUM DOCUMENTED JOINT COUNT OF GREATER THAN FOUR SWOLLEN OR TENDER JOINTS BASED ON A 28 JOINT COUNT OR GREATER THAN SIX SWOLLEN OR TENDER JOINTS BASED ON A JOINT COUNT. JIA - DIAGNOSIS OF JIA, A TRIAL OF NSAID AND MTX THERAPY OR OTHER DMARD IF MTX IS CONTRAINDICATED. PSORIATIC ARTHRITIS - DIAGNOSIS OF MODERATE TO SEVERE PSA AND ACTIVE PSORIATIC LESIONS OR HISTORY OF PSORIASIS AND INTOLERANCE OR FAILURE ON MTX OR SULFASALAZINE - IF THESE ARE CONTRAINDICATED THERAPY WITH AN ALTERNATIVE DMARD REQUIRED. ANKYLOSING SPONDYLITIS - DIAGNOSIS OF AS, AND FAILURE ON, INTOLERANCE TO, OR CONTRAINDICATION TO 2 NSAIDS. PLAQUE PSORIASIS - DIAGNOSIS OF MODERATE TO SEVERE PLAQUE PSORIASIS WITH AT LEAST 5% BSA OR AFFECTING CRUCIAL BODY AREAS SUCH AS HANDS, FEET, FACE OR GENITALS AND FAILURE ON, INTOLERANCE TO OR CONTRAINDICATION TO ONE FORMULARY TOPICAL CORTICOSTEROIDS AND AT LEAST 2 TO 3 MONTHS OF ONE FORMULARY SYSTEMIC THERAPY INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO MTX OR CYCLOSPORINE OR PHOTOTHERAPY MUST BE AT LEAST 18 YEARS OF AGE UNLESS TREATING JIA, THEN PATIENT MUST BE AT LEAST 2 YEARS OF AGE.
58 RHEUMATOLOGIST OR DERMATOLOGIST 6 MONTHS INITIAL AND 1 YEAR CONTINUATION
59 EPOGEN EPOGEN ALL MEDICALLY ACCEPTED INDICATIONS NOT OTHERWISE EXCLUDED FROM PART D FOR NON-SURGICAL INDICATIONS: HEMOGLOBIN MUST BE LESS THAN 11GM/DL FOR NEW STARTS OR LESS THAN 12GM/DL FOR CONTINUATION OF THERAPY. DOCUMENTATION OF ADEQUATE IRON STORES W/ SERUM FERRITIN GREATER THAN 100 NG/ML OR TRANSFERRIN LEVEL SATURATION GREATER THAN 20%. TX OF SYMPTOMATIC ANEMIA OF CHRONIC RENAL INSUFFICIENCY, CHRONIC RENAL FAILURE, INCLUDING ESRD. TX OF SYMPTOMATIC ANEMIA IN AZT TREATED HIV INFECTED INDIVIDUALS - MUST HAVE ENDOGENOUS ERYTHROPOIETIN LEVELS OF 500MU/ML OR LESS AND AZT DOSES OF 4200MG/WEEK OR LESS. TX OF SYMPTOMATIC ANEMIA ASSOCIATE WITH HEP C - MUST BE ON INTERFERON OR PEGYLATED INTERFERON AND RIBIVRIN. TX OF ANEMIA IN NON-HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCY - MUST BE ON ANEMIA CAUSING CHEMO OR RECEIVED ANEMIA INDUCING CHEMO IN LAST 3 MONTHS. TX OF SYMPTOMATIC ANEMIA SECONDARY TO MDS - BASELINE ENDOGENOUS ERYTHROPOEITIN LEVEL OF 500MU/ML OR LESS. TX OF SYMPTOMATIC ANEMIA OF CHRONIC DISEASE - SEVERE COMORBIDITY AND IMPAIRMENTS TO ADL, EXERCISE INTOLERANCE, TACHYCARDIA AND SOB WITH MINIMAL ACTIVITY. TX OF ANEMIA IN MULTIPLE MYELOMA - DOCUMENTATION OF CHEMO OR TRANSFUSION DEPENDENCE OR RENAL INSUFFICIENCY. 3 MONTHS
60 FOR SURGICAL INDICATIONS: HEMOGLOBIN MUST BE GREATER THAN 10GM/DL BUT LESS THAN 13GM/DL. FOR ALLOGENEIC BLOOD TRANSFUSION IN ANEMIC INDIVIDUALS UNDERGOING SURGERY IN ELECTIVE NON CARDIAC, NON-VASCULAR SURGERY WHERE ANTICIPATED BLOOD LOSS IS GREATER THAN 2 UNITS AND NEED FOR TRANSFUSION IS ANTICIPATED. TREATMENT OF ANEMIC PATIENTS WHO ARE AT HIGH RISK FOR PERI-OPERATIVE BLOOD LOSS FROM ELECTIVE, NON-CARDIAC, OR NON-VASCULAR SURGERY TO REDUCE THE NEED FOR ALLOGENIC BLOOD TRANSFUSIONS.THIS DRUG MAY BE EITHER BUNDLED WITH AND COVERED UNDER END STAGE RENAL DISEASE DIALYSIS RELATED SERVICES OR COVERED UNDER MEDICARE D DEPENDING UPON THE CIRCUMSTANCES. INFORMATION MAY NEED TO BE SUBMITTED DESCRIBING THE USE AND SETTING OF THE DRUG TO MAKE THE DETERMINATION.
61 ERAXIS ERAXIS (WATER DILUENT) NON-NEUTROPENIC PATIENT WITH DX OF CANDIDEMIA OR OTHER CANDIDA INFECTION (OTHER THAN ENDOCARDITIS, OSTEOMYELITIS OR MENINGITIS). 17 YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER INFECTIOUS DISEASE SPECIALIST 8 WEEKS (TWO COURSES OF THERAPY) FOR A DIAGNOSIS OF ESOPHAGEAL CANDIDIASIS - FAILURE ON, INTOLERANCE TO, OR CONTRAINDICATION TO FLUCONAZOLE THERARPY
62 ERIVEDGE ERIVEDGE ALL MEDICALLY ACCEPTED INDICATIONS NOT OTHERWISE EXCLUDED FROM PART D DX OF METASTATIC BASAL CELL CARCINOMA OR LOCALLY ADVANCED BASAL CELL CARCINOMA THAT HAS RECURRED FOLLOWING MOHS SURGERY ONCOLOGIST OR DERMATOLOGIST 6 MONTHS NOT A CANDIDATE FOR SURGERY AND RADIATION. PER NCCN GUIDELINES, TREATMENT SUPPORTED BY MULTIDISCIPLINARY BOARD CONSULTATION OR A SECOND DERMATOLOGIST OR ONCOLOGIST.
63 ESRD B VERSUS D DETERMINATION CALCITRIOL DOXERCALCIFEROL HECTOROL HEPARIN SODIUM LEVOCARNITINE LIDOCAINE LIDOCAINE HCL LIDOCAINE-PRILOCAINE MIACALCIN PAMIDRONATE DISODIUM PARICALCITOL ZEMPLAR THIS DRUG MAY BE COVERED UNDER MEDICARE PART B OR D DEPENDING UPON THE CIRCUMSTANCES. INFORMATION MAY NEED TO BE SUBMITTED DESCRIBING THE USE AND SETTING OF THE DRUG TO MAKE THE DETERMINATION.
64 ESTROGENS HRM (ORAL AND TOPICAL PATCH PRODUCTS ONLY) ESTRADIOL ESTRADIOL-NORETHINDRONE ACETAT ESTROPIPATE JINTELI LOPREEZA MENEST MIMVEY MIMVEY LO NORETHINDRON-ETHINYL ESTRADIOL PREMARIN PREMPHASE PREMPRO VIVELLE-DOT ONLY APPLIES TO MEMBERS 65 YEARS OF AGE AND OLDER PRIOR AUTHORIZATION APPLIES ONLY TO MEMBERS 65 YEARS OF AGE AND OLDER WHO WILL BE EVALUATED FOR APPROPRIATE USE OF HIGH RISK MEDICATION. DX OF ABNORMAL VASOMOTOR FUNCTION WILL REQUIRE FAILURE ON, INTOLERANCE TO, OR CONTRAINDICATION TO FEMRING. DX OF VAGINAL/VULVAR ATROPHY WILL REQUIRE FAILURE ON, INTOLERANCE TO, OR CONTRAINDICATION TO ONE OF THE FOLLOWING: ESTRACE VAGINAL CREAM, PREMARIN VAGINAL CREAM, ESTRING, VAGIFEM. DX OF POSTMENOPAUSAL OSTEOPOROSIS WILL REQUIRE FAILURE ON, INTOLERANCE TO, OR CONTRAINDICATION TO TWO OF THE FOLLOWING: ALENDRONATE, IBANDRONATE, RALOXIFENE. ESTROGENS FOR USE IN CANCER, PALLIATIVE CARE, OR HYPOESTROGENISM DUE TO HYPOGONADISM, CASTRATION OR PRIMARY OVARIAN FAILURE WILL BE APPROVED.
65 EXJADE EXJADE DIAGNOSIS OF CHRONIC IRON OVERLOAD CAUSED BY TRANSFUSION DEPENDENT THALASSEMIA OR CHRONIC IRON OVERLOAD CAUSED BY NON-TRANSFUSION DEPENDENT THALASSEMIA FOR TRANSFUSION DEPENDENT THALASSEMIA: MUST BO TWO YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER. FOR NON-TRANSFUSION DEPENDENT THALASSEMIA: MUST BY 10 YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER 3 MONTHS FOR TRANSFUSION DEPENDENT THALASSEMIA: DOCUMENTATION OF A SERUM FERRITIN LEVEL GREATER THAN 1000 MCG/L. CONTINUATION OF COVERAGE REQUIRES DOCUMENTATION OF A DECREASED SERUM FERRITIN FROM BASELINE. FOR NON-TRANSFUSION DEPENDENT THALASSEMIA: DOCUMENTATION OF LIC (LIVER IRON CONCENTRATION) OF GREATER THAN 5 MILLIGRAMS OF IRON PER GRAM OF DRY LIVER TISSUE WEIGHT (FE/G DW) AND SERRUM FERRITIN GREATER THAN 300 MCG/L. CONTINUATION OF COVERAGE REQUIRES DOCUMENTATION OF A DECREASED LIC FROM BASELINE AND A SERRUM FERRITIN LEVEL LESS THAN 300 MCG/L.
66 FABIOR FABIOR DX OF ACNE, ACNE VULGARIS, OR ADULT ONSET ACNE FAILURE ON, INTOLERANCE TO, OR CONTRAINDICATION TO TWO FORMULARY MEDICATIONS FOR THE TREATMENT OF ACNE
67 FABRAZYME FABRAZYME DX OF FABRY DISEASE METABOLIC SPECIALIST WITH EXPERIENCE TREATING FABRY DISEASE
68 FARYDAK FARYDAK ALL MEDICALLY ACCEPTED INDICATIONS NOT OTHERWISE EXCLUDED FROM PART D DIAGNOSIS OF MULTIPLE MYELOMA AND DOCUMENTATION OF BEING USED IN COMBINATION WITH VELCADE AND DEXAMETHASONE HEMATOLOGIST OR ONCOLOGIST 6 MONTHS INITIAL AND CONTINUATION. MAXIMUM OF 12 MONTHS FAILURE ON, INTOLERANCE TO, OR CONTRAINDICATION TO BORTEZOMIB AND AN IMMUNOMODULATORY AGENT (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO POMALYST, REVLIMID, THALOMID)
69 FERRIPROX FERRIPROX DX OF TRANSFUSIONAL IRON OVERLOAD DUE TO THALASSEMIA SYNDROME HEMATOLOGIST THERAPEUTIC FAILURE ON, INTOLERANCE TO, OR CONTRAINDICATION TO EXJADE. DOCUMENTATION OF ANC GREATER THAN 1.5 X (10 TO THE 9TH POWER) / L
70 FETZIMA FETZIMA DIAGNOSIS OF MAJOR DEPRESSIVE DISORDER MUST BE 18 YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER FAILURE ON, INTOLERANCE TO, OR CONTRAINDICATION TO AT LEAST TWO ANTIDEPRESSANT CLASSES.
71 FIRAZYR FIRAZYR DIAGNOSIS OF HEREDITARY ANGIOEDEMA SUPPORTED BY PHYSICIAN DOCUMENTATION OF RECURRENT, SELF-LIMITING NON-INFLAMMATORY SUBCUTANEOUS ANGIOEDEMA WITHOUT URTICARIA LASTING MORE THAN 12 HRS OR LARYNGEAL EDEMA OR RECURRENT, SELF-REMITTING ABDOMINAL PAIN LASTING MORE THAN 6 HRS WITHOUT CLEAR ORGANIC ETIOLOGY AND THE PRESENCE OF SPECIFIC ABNORMALITIES IN COMPLEMENT PROTEINS IN THE SETTING OF A SUGGESTIVE CLINICAL HISTORY OF EPISODIC ANGIOEDEMA WITHOUT URTICARIA. MUST BE AT LEAST 18 YEARS OF AGE ALLERGIST, IMMUNOLOGIST, HEMATOLOGIST, OR DERMATOLOGIST 6 MONTHS INITIAL AND 1 YEAR CONTINUATION DOCUMENTATION THAT FIRAZYR IS BEING USED AS A TREATMENT OF ACUTE HEREDITARY ANGIOEDEMA ATTACK. DOCUMENTATION OF CONCURRENT OR FAILURE ON, INTOLERANCE TO, OR CONTRAINDICATION TO PROPHYLACTIC THERAPY (ANDROGENS OR TRANEXAMIC ACID).
72 FLECTOR FLECTOR DIAGNOSIS OF USE FOR THE TREATMENT OF ACUTE PAIN DUE TO MINOR STRAINS, SPRAINS, CONTUSIONS. 12 WEEKS FAILURE ON, INTOLERANCE TO, OR CONTRAINDICATION TO TWO ORAL FORMULARY NSAIDS
73 FORTEO FORTEO PREVIOUS FRACTURE OR T SCORE (-1.5 FOR WOMEN, LESS THAN -2 FOR MEN) OR BELOW ENDOCRINOLOGIST OR RHEUMATOLOGIST 24 MONTHS ATTEMPT OF THERAPY WITH OR CONTRAINDICATION TO BISPHOSPHONATE
74 FYCOMPA FYCOMPA DIAGNOSIS OF PARTIAL ONSET SEIZURES FAILURE ON, INTOLERANCE TO, OR CONTRAINDICATION TO TWO FORMULARY ALTERNATIVES AND DOCUMENTATION THAT FYCOMPA IS BEING USED CONCOMITANTLY WITH AT LEAST ONE OTHER FORMULARY ANTICONVULSANT AGENT
75 GATTEX GATTEX DIAGNOSIS OF SHORT BOWEL SYNDROME MUST BE AT LEAST 18 YEARS OF AGE GASTROENTEROLOGIST 6 MONTHS INITIAL AND 1 YEAR CONTINUATION DOCUMENTATION THAT THE MEMBER HAS BEEN DEPENDENT ON PARENTERAL NUTRITION/INTRAVENOUS SUPPORT FOR A MINIMUM OF 12 CONSECUTIVE MONTHS CONTINUOUSLY AND THAT THE MEMBER REQUIRES PARENTERAL NUTRITION AT LEAST 3 TIMES PER WEEK.
76 GILOTRIF GILOTRIF ALL MEDICALLY ACCEPTED INDICATIONS NOT OTHERWISE EXCLUDED FROM PART D DOCUMENTATION OF FIRST OR SECOND LINE TREATMENT FOR METASTATIC NON- SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER (NSCLC) WITH EGFR EXON 19 DELETIONS OR EXON 21 (L858R) SUBSTITUTION MUTATIONS AS DETECTED BY AN FDA APPROVED TEST ONCOLOGIST OR HEMATOLOGIST
77 GLYXAMBI GLYXAMBI DIAGNOSIS OF TYPE II DIABETES MELLITUS MUST BE 18 YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER FAILURE ON, INTOLERANCE TO, OR CONTRAINDICATION TO A DPP-4 AND SGLT-2 INHIBITOR USED IN COMBINATION.
78 GRANIX GRANIX PREVENTION OF FEBRILE NEUTROPENIA WHEN RISK DUE TO MYELOSUPPRESIVE CHEMO REGIMEN IS 20% OR GREATER. TO PREVENT FEBRILE NEUTROPENIA WHEN THE RISK OF DEVELOPING FEBRILE NEUTROPENIA IS LESS THAN 20% WITH THE FOLLOWING RISK FACTORS: 65 YRS OR OLDER, POOR PERFORMANCE STATUS, PREVIOUS HISTORY OF FEBRILE NEUTROPENIA, EXTENSIVE PRIOR RADIATION OF CHEMO TREATMENT, POOR NUTRITIONAL STATUS, OPEN WOUNDS OR ACTIVE INFECTION, ADVANCED CANCER. 6 MONTHS
79 GROWTH HORMONE GENOTROPIN NORDITROPIN FLEXPRO NUTROPIN AQ NUSPIN OMNITROPE GROWTH HORMONE STIMULATION TESTS, IGF-I LEVELS, GROWTH VELOCITY CURVES ENDOCRINOLOGIST OR NEPHROLOGIST
80 HALAVEN HALAVEN ALL MEDICALLY ACCEPTED INDICATIONS NOT OTHERWISE EXCLUDED FROM PART D DX OF METASTATIC BREAST CANCER HEMATOLOGIST OR ONCOLOGIST FAILURE ON, INTOLERANCE TO, OR CONTRAINDICATION TO AT LEAST 2 PRIOR CHEMOTHERAPEUTIC AGENTS. PRIOR THERAPY SHOULD HAVE INCLUDED AN ANTHRACYCLINE AND A TAXANE IN THE ADJUVANT OR METASTATIC SETTING
81 HARVONI HARVONI DOCUMENTATION OF A DIAGNOSIS OF HEPATITIS C INFECTION WITH GENOTYPE 1 OR 4 INFECTION, AND DOCUMENTATION OF CIRRHOSIS OR NO CIRRHOSIS TO CONFIRM DURATION OF THERAPY, AND DOCUMENTATION OF AN FDA APPROVED MEDICATION REGIMEN, AND DOCUMENTATION OF PREVIOUS TREATMENT AND TREATMENT RESPONSE, AND DOCUMENTATION OF THE FOLLOWING BASELINE LABS WITHIN THE PAST 3 MONTHS: HEPATIC FUNCTION PANEL, COMPLETE BLOOD COUNT INCLUDING DIFFERENTIAL, BASIC METABOLIC PANEL, BASELINE HCV RNA VIRAL LOAD. MUST BE 18 YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER BOARD CERTIFIED GASTROENTEROLOGIST, HEPATOLOGIST, INFECTIOUS DISEASE SPECIALIST OR TRANSPLANT SPECIALIST TYPE 1: 12 WK ASK MD TO CONSIDER 8 WK OPTION IF SUITABLE, 24 WK FOR TX EXP W/CIRRHOSIS TYPE 4: 12 WK DOCUMENTATION OF HARVONI BEING USED FOR GENOTYPE 1 AS MONOTHERAPY OR CONCURRENT THERAPY WITH RIBAVIRIN IF TREATMENT EXPERIENCED WITH CIRRHOSIS OR DOCUMENTATION OF HARVONI BEING USED FOR GENOTYPE 4.
82 HUMIRA HUMIRA HUMIRA PEN CROHN'S-UC-HS ADULT RA - DX OF RA MADE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF RHEUMATOLOGY CRITERIA FOR THE CLASSIFICATION AND DIAGNOSIS OF RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS AND TRIAL OF MTX OR OTHER DMARD IF MTX NOT TOLERATED OR CONTRAINDICATED AND DOCUMENATION OF THE NUMBER OF SWOLLEN OR TENDER JOINTS PRIOR TO INITIATING THERAPY WITH A MINIMUM DOCUMENTED JOINT COUNT OF GREATER THAN FOUR SWOLLEN OR TENDER JOINTS BASED ON A 28 JOINT COUNT OR GREATER THAN SIX SWOLLEN OR TENDER JOINTS BASED ON A JOINT COUNT. JIA - DX OF MODERATE TO SEVERE JIA WITH AT LEAST 5 SWOLLEN OR TENDER JOINTS AND A TRIAL OF ONE NSAID AND MTX THERAPY OR OTHER DMARD IF MTX IS CONTRAINDICATED. PSORIATIC ARTHRITIS - DX OF MODERATE TO SEVERE PSA WITH AT LEAST 3 TENDER OR PAINFUL JOINTS AND ACTIVE PSORIATIC LESIONS OR HISTORY OF PSORIASIS AND INTOLERANCE OR FAILURE ON MTX OR SULFASALAZINE - IF THESE ARE CONTRAINDICATED THERAPY WITH AN ALTERNATIVED DMARD REQUIRED. PLAQUE PSORIASIS - DX OF MODERATE TO SEVERE PLAQUE PSORIASIS WITH AT LEAST 5% BSA OR AFFECTING CRUCIAL BODY AREAS SUCH AS HANDS, FEET, FACE OR GENITALS AND FAILURE ON, INTOLERANCE TO OR CONTRAINDICATION TO ONE FORMULARY TOPICAL CORTICOSTEROIDS AND AT LEAST 2 TO 3 MONTHS OF ONE FORMULARY SYSTEMIC THERAPY INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO MTX OR CYCLOSPORINE OR PHOTOTHERAPY. CROHN'S - DX OF CROHNS WITH FAILURE ON, INTOLERANCE TO, OR CONTRAINDICATION TO TWO OF THE FOLLOWING (AMINOSALICYLATES, CORTICOSTEROIDS AND IMMUNOMODULATORS). ANKYLOSING SPONDYLITIS - DX OF ANKYLOSING SPONDYLITIS AND FAILURE ON, INTOLERANCE TO, OR CONTRAINDICATION TO AT LEAST 2 NSAIDS. ULCERATIVE COLITIS - DX OF MODERATE TO SEVERE UC WITH FAILURE ON, INTOLERANCE TO, OR CONTRAINDICATION TO AZATHIOPRINE OR 6-MERCAPTOPURINE.
83 Geisinger Health Plan MUST BE AT LEAST 18 YEARS OF AGE FOR THE FOLLOWING DIAGNOSES PSORIASIS, PSA, RA, ANKYLOSING SPONDYLITIS, UC, AND CROHN'S. MUST BE AT LEAST 4 YEARS OF AGE FOR JIA RHEUMATOLOGIST, GASTROENTEROLOGIST, DERMATOLOGIST 6 MONTHS INITIAL AND 1 YEAR CONTINUATION IN ORDER TO RECEIVE WEEKLY DOSING OF HUMIRA, MUST SHOW DOCUMENTATION OF THERAPEUTIC FAILURE ON EVERY OTHER WEEK DOSING SCHEDULE.
84 HYDROXYZINE HRM HYDROXYZINE HCL HYDROXYZINE PAMOATE ONLY APPLIES TO MEMBERS 65 YEARS OF AGE AND OLDER PRIOR AUTHORIZATION APPLIES ONLY TO MEMBERS 65 YEARS OF AGE AND OLDER WHO WILL BE EVALUATED FOR APPROPRIATE USE OF HIGH RISK MEDICATION. DIAGNOSIS OF PRURITUS WILL REQUIRE FAILURE ON, INTOLERANCE TO, OR CONTRAINDICATION TO DESLORATADINE AND LEVOCETIRIZINE. DIAGNOSIS OF ANXIETY WILL REQUIRE FAILURE ON, INTOLERANCE TO, OR CONTRAINDICATION TO TWO OF THE FOLLOWING: BUSPIRONE, FORMULARY SSRI, FORMULARY SNRI - FAILURES MUST BE FROM DIFFERENT CLASSES. DIAGNOSIS OF SEDATION INCLUDING PRODUCTION OF LIGHT SLEEP WILL REQUIRE FAILURE ON, INTOLERANCE TO, OR CONTRAINDICATION TO ROZEREM AND SILENOR.
85 IBRANCE IBRANCE ALL MEDICALLY ACCEPTED INDICATIONS NOT OTHERWISE EXCLUDED FROM PART D DIAGNOSIS OF HORMONE RECEPTOR POSITIVE, HER2 NEGATIVE METASTATIC BREAST CANCER MUST BE 18 YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER ONCOLOGIST 3 MONTHS DOCUMENTATION THAT IBRANCE WILL BE PRESCRIBED IN COMBINATION WITH LETROZOLE
86 ICLUSIG ICLUSIG ALL MEDICALLY ACCEPTED INDICATIONS NOT OTHERWISE EXCLUDED FROM PART D DX OF CHRONIC PHASE, ACCELERATED PHASE, OR BLAST PHASE CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKEMIA (CML) OR PHILADELPHIA CHROMOSOME POSITIVE ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA (PH+ALL) HEMATOLOGIST OR ONCOLOGIST 3 MONTHS DOCUMENTATION OF RESISTANCE OR INTOLERANCE TO ONE PRIOR TYROSINE KINASE INHIBITOR THERAPY OR DOCUMENTATION OF CML CELL MUTATION T3151
87 ILARIS ILARIS PHYSICIAN PROVIDED DOCUMENTATION OF DIAGNOSIS OF CRYOPYRIN- ASSOCIATED PERIODIC SYNDROME (CAPS), INCLUDING FAMILIAL COLD AUTOINFLAMMATORY SYNDROME (FCAS) AND MUCKLE-WELLS SYNDROME (MWS) SUPPORTED BY DOCUMENTATION OF GENETIC TESTING TO IDENTIFY THE CIAS1/NLRP-3 GENE MUTATION. DIAGNOSIS OF ACUTE GOUT IN PATIENTS WHO HAVE A HISTORY OF MULTIPLE FLARES AND WHO HAVE EITHER REFRACTORINESS OR CONTRAINDICATION TO ACUTE FLARE TREATMENT WITH NSAIDS AND COLCHICINE. DIAGNOSIS OF SYSTEMIC JUVENILE IDIOPATHIC ARTHRITIS (SJIA) AND MEDICAL RECORD DOCUMENTATION OF ACTIVE SYSTEMIC JUVENILE IDIOPATHIC ARTHRITIS (SJIA) DIAGNOSED PRIOR TO AGE 16 YEARS, CHARACTERIZED BY GREATER OR EQUAL TO 2 JOINTS WITH ACTIVE ARTHRITIS AND SPIKING, INTERMITTENT FEVER (GREATER THAN 38 DEGREES C) WITHOUT INFECTIOUS CAUSE AND CRP GREATER THAN 30 MG/DL. FOR CAPS: PRESCRIBED BY AN IMMUNOLOGIST, RHEUMATOLOGIST, OR ALLERGIST. FOR SJIA: PRESCRIBED BY A RHEUMATOLOGIST. FOR CAPS: 12 WEEKS THEN 1 YEAR. FOR SJIA: 6 MONTHS THEN 1 YEAR. FOR GOUT: 12 WEEKS
88 FOR SJIA: FAILURE ON, INTOLERANCE TO, OR CONTRAINDICATION TO ACTEMRA
89 IMBRUVICA IMBRUVICA ALL MEDICALLY ACCEPTED INDICATIONS NOT OTHERWISE EXCLUDED FROM PART D DIAGNOSIS OF MANTLE CELL LYMPHOMA (MCL). DX OF CHRONIC LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA (CLL). HEMATOLOGIST OR ONCOLOGIST FAILURE ON, INTOLERANCE TO, OR CONTRAINDICATION TO ONE PRIOR THERAPY INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO HYPERCVAD, NORDIC REGIMEN, CALGB REGIMEN, RCHOP/RICE, RCHOP/RDHAP, BENDAMUSTINE PLUS RITUXIMAB, CHOP PLUS RITUXIMAB, CLADRIBINE PLUS RITUXIMAB, CVP PLUS RITUXIMAB, EPOCH PLUS RITUXIMAB.
90 INLYTA INLYTA ALL MEDICALLY ACCEPTED INDICATIONS NOT OTHERWISE EXCLUDED FROM PART D DX OF ADVANCED RENAL CELL CARCINOMA ONCOLOGIST 6 MONTHS FAILURE ON ONE PRIOR SYSTEMIC THERAPY
91 INTUNIV GUANFACINE HCL ER INTUNIV DX OF ATTENTION DEFICIT HYPERACTIVITY DISORDER (ADHD) MUST BE BETWEEN 6 TO 17 YEARS OF AGE. FAILURE ON, INTOLERANCE TO, OR CONTRAINDICATION TO TWO FORMULARY STIMULANTS
92 INVEGA SUSTENNA INVEGA SUSTENNA DIAGNOSIS OF SCHIZOPHRENIA MUST BE 18 YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER DOCUMENTED HISTORY OF POOR ADHERENCE TO ORAL MEDICATIONS AND DOCUMENTATION THAT PATIENT EDUCATION TO IMPROVE ADHERENCE HAS BEEN ATTEMPTED. FAILURE ON, INTOLERANCE TO, OR CONTRAINDICATION TO RISPERDAL CONSTA AND ZYPREXA RELPREVV.
93 INVOKAMET INVOKAMET DIAGNOSIS OF TYPE II DIABETES MELLITUS MUST BE 18 YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER DOCUMENATION OF ESTIMATED GLOMERULAR FILTRATION RATE (EGFR) GREATER THAN OR EQUAL TO 45 ML/MIN. FAILURE ON, INTOLERANCE TO, OR CONTRAINDICATION TO JARDIANCE AND METFORMIN USED IN COMBINATION.
94 INVOKANA INVOKANA DIAGNOSIS OF TYPE II DIABETES MELLITUS MUST BE AT LEAST 18 YEARS OF AGE DOCUMENATION OF ESTIMATED GLOMERULAR FILTRATION RATE (EGFR) GREATER THAN OR EQUAL TO 45 ML/MIN. FAILURE ON, INTOLERANCE TO, OR CONTRAINDICATION TO 2 OTHER FORMULARY ANTIDIABETIC MEDICATIONS, ONE OF WHICH MUST BE METFORMIN.
95 ISTODAX ISTODAX ALL MEDICALLY ACCEPTED INDICATIONS NOT OTHERWISE EXCLUDED FROM PART D DX OF CUTANEOUS OR PERIPHERAL T-CELL LYMPHOMA HEMATOLOGIST OR ONCOLOGIST DOCUMENTATION OF DISEASE PROGRESSION WHILE ON AT LEAST ONE PRIOR SYSTEMIC THERAPY INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO CHOP REGIMENS, CHOEP, ICE, IVE, EPOCH, HYPERCVAD.
96 ITRACONAZOLE ITRACONAZOLE POSITIVE CULTURE SUBSTANTIATING DIAGNOSIS FOR ONYCHOMYCOSIS: FAILURE ON, CONTRAINDICATION TO, OR INTOLERANCE TO TERBINAFINE
97 IVIG BIVIGAM CARIMUNE NF NANOFILTERED FLEBOGAMMA DIF GAMASTAN S-D GAMMAGARD LIQUID GAMUNEX-C PRIVIGEN. PRIMARY HUMORAL IMMUNODEFICIENCES (CONGENITAL AGAMMAGLOBULINEMIA, COMMON VARIABLE IMMUNODEFICIENCY, WISKOTT- ALDRICH SYNDROME, X-LINKED IMMUNODEFICIENCY WITH HYPERIMMUNOGLOBULIN M, SEVERE COMBINED IMMUNODEFICIENCY, HYPOGAMMAGLOBULINEMIA PROVIDED FLOW CYTOMETRY AND ANAMNESTIC RESPONSE TO RECALL ANTIGENS TO DETERMINE EXTENT OF DEFICIENCY), IDIOPATHIC THROMBOCYTOPENIA PURPURA (ITP), B-CELL CHRONIC LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA (CLL), HIV INFECTION TO REDUCE SIGNIFICANT BACTERIAL INFECTION (HIV), CHRONIC INFLAMMATORY DEMYELINATING POLYNEUROPATHY (CIDP), DERMATOMYOSITIS AND POLYMYOSITIS, AUTOIMMUNE HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA (AHA), RELAPSING/REMITTING MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS (MS), MULTIFOCAL MOTOR NEUROPATHY (MMN). USE OF IVIG FOR THE FOLLOWING INDICATIONS IS CONSIDERED INVESTIGATIONAL AND WILL NOT BE COVERED: ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE, AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS, ATOPIC DERMATITIS, AUTISM, CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME, CHRONIC MUCOCUTANEOUS CANDIDIASIS, COMPLEX REGIONAL PAIN SYNDROME, EPILEPSY, INCLUSION BODY MYOSITIS, LYME DISEASE, NEUROMYELITIS OPTICA (DEVIC'S DISEASE), OPTIC NEURITIS, PARAPROTEINEMIC DEMYELINATING NEUROPATHY, POST-POLIO SYNDROME, RECURRENT SPONTANEOUS MISCARRIAGE, RHEUMATIC FEVER, SECONDARY PROGRESSIVE MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS, SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS. ACUTE ITP: ACTIVE BLEEDING & PLATELET COUNT LESS THAN 30,000/UL OR PRE- OP TX PRIOR TO MAJOR SURGICAL PROCEDURE OR PLATELET COUNT LESS THAN 20,000/UL & AT RISK FOR INTRACEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE. CHRONIC ITP: PRIOR TX W/ CORTICOSTEROIDS & SPLENECTOMY, AND DURATION OF ILLNESS GREATER THAN 6 MONTHS, AND 10 YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER, AND NO CONCURRENT ILLNESS
98 EXPLAINING THROMBOCYTOPENIA, AND PLATELET COUNT LESS THAN 20,000/UL. CLL: DEFINITIVE DIAGNOSIS OF CLL, AND IGG LEVEL LESS THAN 600 MG/DL, AND HISTORY OF SERIOUS BACTERIAL INFECTION REQUIRING EITHER ORAL OR PARENTERAL ABX TX W/IN LAST 6 MONTHS. HIV: 14 YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER, AND EVIDENCE OF EITHER QUALITATIVE OR QUANTITATIVE HUMORAL IMMUNOLOGIC DEFECTS, AND CURRENT BACTERIAL INFECTIONS DESPITE APPOPRIATE ABX PROPHYLAXIS, CIDP: DEFINITIVE DIGANOSIS OF CIDP PER AMERICAN ACADEMY OF NEUROLOGY OR MEDICAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE OF THE NEUROPATHY ASSOCIATION, REFRACTORY TO OR INTOLERANT OF PREDNISONE OR AZATHIOPRINE GIVEN IN THERAPEUTIC DOSES OVER AT LEAST 3 MONTHS, NEUROLOGIC FUNCTION ASSESSMENT SCORE OF AT LEAST 3 OR GREATER ON THE RANKIN SCALE AT THE TIME OF INITIAL THERAPY. DERMATOMYOSITIS / POLYMYOSITIS: BIOPSY PROVEN DISEASE, AND ACTIVE DISEASE, AND REFRACTORY TO BOTH CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY (AT LEAST 4 MONTHS) & IMMUNOSUPPRESANTS (AT LEAST TWO OF THE FOLLOWING CYCLOSPORINE, AZATHIOPRINE, METHOTREXATE, CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE). AHA: WARM-TYPE AUTOIMMUNE HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA WITH FAILURE OF, INTOLERANCE TO, OR CONTRAIDICATIONS TO CORTICOSTEROIDS OR SPLENECTOMY. MS: FAILURE ON AT LEAST 2 STANDARD APPROACHES (INTERFERONS, COPAXONE) AFTER A MINIMUM TRIAL OF 3 MONTHS OR, INTOLERANCE TO, OR CONTRAINDICATION TO THESE THERAPIES. MMN: PROGRESSIVE & SYMPTOMATIC DISEASE FOR A MINIMUM OF 2 MONTHS DIAGNOSISED WITH ELECTROPHYSICAL FINDINGS OF CONDUCTION BLOCK ON A SINGLE NERVE OR PROBABLE CONDUCTION BLOCK IN 2 OR MORE NERVES OR NORMAL SENSORY NERVE CONDUCTION IN UPPER LIMB SEGEMENTS AND NORMAL SENSORY NERVE ACTION POTENTIAL (SNAP) AMPLITUDE. FOR CHRONIC INFLAMMATORY DEMYELINATING POLYNEUROPATHY, DERMATOMYOSITIS / POLYMYOSITIS, RELAPSING/REMITTING MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS, AND MULTIFOCAL MOTOR NEUROPATHY: MUST BE PRESCRIBED BY A NEUROLOGIST OR RHEUMATOLOGIST CDIP & MS : 8 WEEKS. MULTIFOCAL MOTOR NEUROPATHY: 12 WEEKS. ALL OTHERS: 6 MONTHS. IVIG MAY BE COVERED UNDER MEDICARE PART B OR MEDICARE D DEPENDING UPON THE CIRCUMSTANCES. INFORMATION MAY NEED TO BE SUBMITTED DESCRIBING THE USE AND SETTING OF THE DRUG TO MAKE THE DETERMINATION.
99 CONTINUATION OF COVERAGE WILL REQUIRE MEDICAL RECORD DOCUMENTATION OF A MEAURABLE RESPONSE OR IMPROVMENT IN SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS.
100 IXEMPRA IXEMPRA ALL MEDICALLY ACCEPTED INDICATIONS NOT OTHERWISE EXCLUDED FROM PART D DX OF METASTATIC OR LOCALLY ADVANCED BREAST CANCER HEMATOLOGIST OR ONCOLOGIST DOCUMENTATION OF USE IN COMBO WITH CAPECITABINE FOR THE TREATMENT OF METASTATIC OR LOCALLY ADVANCED BREAST CANCER WITH RESISTANCE TO AN ANTHRACYCLINE AND A TAXANE OR CANCER THAT IS TAXANE RESISTANT AND FURTHER ANTHRACYCLINE THERAPY IS CONTRAINDICATED OR DOCUMENTATION OF USE AS A MONOTHERAPY WITH TUMORS RESISTANT OR REFRACTORY TO ANTHRACYCLINES, TAXANES AND CAPECITABINE.
101 JEVTANA JEVTANA ALL MEDICALLY ACCEPTED INDICATIONS NOT OTHERWISE EXCLUDED FROM PART D DX OF HORMONE-REFRACTORY METASTATIC PROSTATE CANCER HEMATOLOGIST OR ONCOLOGIST DOCUMENTATION OF TUMOR WIHTOUT NEUROENDOCRINE FEATURES AND DOCUMENTATION OF NEUTROPHIL COUNT GREATER THAN 1500 CELLS/MM(3) AND FAILURE ON, INTOLERANCE TO, OR CONTRAINDICATION TO A DOCETAXEL-BASED REGIMEN.
102 KALYDECO KALYDECO DX OF CYSTIC FIBROSIS AND DOCUMENTATION OF AT LEAST ONE COPY OF G551D MUTATION IN THE CFTR GENE AS EVIDENCED BY A FDA CLEARED CF MUTATION TEST AND DOCUMENTATION THAT THE PATIENT IS NOT HOMOZYGOUS FOR THE F508 DEL MUTATION IN THE CFTR GENER MUST BE 6 YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER PULMONOLOGIST 2 MONTHS INITIAL AND 1 YEAR CONTINUATION
103 KETEK KETEK DX OF COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA FAILURE ON, CONTRAINDICATION TO, OR INTOLERANCE TO AZITHROMYCIN, CLARITHROMYCIN OR ERYTHROMYCIN
104 KEYTRUDA KEYTRUDA ALL MEDICALLY ACCEPTED INDICATIONS NOT OTHERWISE EXCLUDED FROM PART D DIAGNOSIS OF UNRESECTABLE OR METASTATIC MELANOMA MUST BE 18 YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER ONCOLOGIST OR HEMATOLOGIST 6 MONTHS DOCUMENTATION OF FAILURE ON (DISEASE PROGRESSION), INTOLERANCE TO, OR CONTRAINDICATION TO YERVOY (IPILIMUMAB) AND IF BRAF V600 MUTATION POSITIVE, DOCUMENTATION OF FAILURE ON (DISEASE PROGRESSION), INTOLERANCE TO, OR CONTRAINDICATION TO A BRAF INHIBITOR (VEMURAFENIB (ZELBORAF), DABRAFENIB (TAFINLAR), OR TRAMETINIB (MEKINIST) AND DOCUMENTATION THAT KEYTRUDA IS NOT BEING USED IN COMBINATION WITH ANY OTHER AGENTS FOR THE TREATMENT OF UNRESCTABLE OR METASTATIC MELANOMA. SUBSEQUENT APPROVAL AFTER 6 MONTHS WILL REQUIRE DOCUMENTATION OF CONTINUED DISEASE IMPROVEMENT OR LACK OF DISEASE PROGRESSION.
105 KINERET KINERET DX OF NEONATAL-ONSET MULTISYSTEM INFLAMMATORY DISEASE (NOMID). DX OF RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS MADE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF RHEUMATOLOGY CRITERIA FOR THE CLASSIFICATION AND DIAGNOSIS OF RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS AND DOCUMENATION OF THE NUMBER OF SWOLLEN OR TENDER JOINTS PRIOR TO INITIATING THERAPY WITH A MINIMUM DOCUMENTED JOINT COUNT OF GREATER THAN FOUR SWOLLEN OR TENDER JOINTS BASED ON A 28 JOINT COUNT OR GREATER THAN SIX SWOLLEN OR TENDER JOINTS BASED ON A JOINT COUNT. FOR RA - MUST BE 18 YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER FOR NOMID: PRESCRIBED BY IMMUNOLOGIST, RHEUMATOLOGIST, OR ALLERGIST. FOR RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS: PRESCRIBED BY RHEUMATOLOGIST. FOR RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS: FAILURE ON, INTOLERANCE TO, OR CONTRAINDICATION TO ENBREL AND HUMIRA.
106 KORLYM KORLYM PREGNANCY DX OF ENDOGENOUS CUSHING'S SYNDROME AND DOCUMENTATION OF FAILED SURGICAL TREATMENT FOR CUSHING'S SYNDROME OR THAT PATIENT IS NOT A CANDIDATE FOR SURGERY. DOCUMENTATION OF A NEGATIVE PREGNANCY TEST WITHIN 14 DAYS OF INITIATING THERAPY IN WOMEN OF REPRODUCTIVE POTENTIAL ENDOCRINOLOGIST THERAPEUTIC FAILURE ON, CONTRAINDICATION TO, OR INTOLERANCE TO AT LEAST TWO FORMULARY ANTI-DIABETIC ALTERNATIVES
107 KUVAN KUVAN BASELINE BLOOD PHE LEVEL LESS THAN 450 UMOL/L. BASELINE BLOOD PHE LEVELS. FOR CONTINUATION OF THERAPY, MUST PROVIDE THE FOLLOWING BLOOD PHE LEVELS, BASELINE, 1 WEEK, 4 WEEKS AND 8 WEEKS. METABOLIC SPECIALIST INITIALLY 2 MONTHS THEN INDEFINITE IF PATIENT IS A RESPONDER COMPLIANT WITH A PHE RESTRICTED DIET, 30% OR GREATER REDUCTION IN PHE AT WK 8 FOR INDEFINITE AUTH
108 KYNAMRO KYNAMRO DIAGNOSIS OF HOMOZYGOUS FAMILIAL HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA THAT IS CAUSED BY MUTATIONS OF THE LDL RECEPTOR GENE MUST BE AT LEAST 18 YEARS OF AGE HEPATOLOGIST, LIDIPOLOGIST OR CARDIOLOGIST REGISTERED WITH THE KYNAMRO REMS PROGRAM 6 MONTHS INITIAL AND 1 YEAR CONTINUATION DOCUMENTATION OF FAILURE TO ADEQUATELY CONTROL LDL LEVELS WITH A COMBINATION OF MAXIMUM TOLERATED STATIN DOSE AND LDL APHERESIS TREATMENTS DEFINED AS GREATER THAN OR EQUAL TO 200MG/DL IN PATIENTS WITHOUT CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE OR GREATER THAN OR EQUAL TO 160MG/DL IN PATIENTS WITH ESTABLISHED CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE AND DOCUMENTATION THAT KYNAMRO WILL BE USED IN ADJUNCT WITH MAXIMUM TOLERATED STATIN DOSE AND DOCUMENTATION THAT KYNAMRO WILL NOT BE USED IN CONJUNCTION WITH LDL APHERESIS.
109 LATUDA LATUDA ALL MEDICALLY ACCEPTED INDICATIONS NOT OTHERWISE EXCLUDED FROM PART D DX OF SCHIZOPHRENIA OR DX OF DEPRESSIVE EPISODES ASSOCIATED WITH BIPOLAR 1 DISORDER (BIPOLAR DEPRESSION) FOR SCHIZOPHRENIA: FAILURE ON, INTOLERANCE TO, OR CONTRAINDICATION TO TWO FORMULARY ATYPICAL ANTIPSYCHOTICS (OLANZAPINE, RISPERIDONE, QUETIAPINE, ZIPRASIDONE, ABILIFY) OR FAILURE ON, INTOLERANCE TO, OR CONTRAINDICATION TO ZIPRASIDONE AND ABILIFY FOR MEMBERS WITH METABOLIC SYNDROME. FOR BIPOLAR DEPRESSION: FAILURE ON, INTOLERANCE TO, OR CONTRAINDICATION TO QUETIAPINE.
110 LAZANDA LAZANDA DIAGNOSIS OF CANCER AND OF USE TO MANAGE BREAKTHROUGH CANCER PAIN MEDICAL RECORD DOCUMENTATION OF CONCOMITANT MORPHINE 60 MG/DAY OR MORE, TRANSDERMAL FENTANYL 25 MCG/H, OXYCODONE 30 MG/DAY, ORAL HYDROMORPHONE 8 MG/DAY, OR AN EQUIANALGESIC DOSE OF ANOTHER OPIOID FOR 1 WEEK OR LONGER AND FAILURE ON, INTOLERANCE TO, OR CONTRAINDICATION TO GENERIC FENTANYL LOZENGES.
111 LENVIMA LENVIMA ALL MEDICALLY ACCEPTED INDICATIONS NOT OTHERWISE EXCLUDED FROM PART D DIAGNOSIS OF LOCALLY RECURRENT OR METASTATIC, PROGRESSIVE, RADIOACTIVE IODINE-REFRACTORY DIFFERENTIATED THYROID CANCER HEMATOLOGIST OR ONCOLOGIST 6 MONTHS SUBSEQUENT APPROVAL AFTER 6 MONTHS WILL REQUIRE DOCUMENTATION OF CONTINUED DISEASE IMPROVEMENT OR LACK OF DISEASE PROGRESSION.
112 LETAIRIS LETAIRIS DIAGNOSIS OF FUNCTIONAL CLASS 2 OR 3 PULMONARY ARTERIAL HYPERTENSION PULMONOLOGIST OR CARDIOLOGIST FAILURE ON, INTOLERANCE TO, OR CONTRAINDICATION TO REVATIO AND TRACLEER
113 LEUKINE LEUKINE PROPHYLAXIS DURING CHEMO REGIMENS WITH A FEBRILE NEUTROPENIA RISK LESS THAN 20% AND NO HIGH RISK FOR COMPLICATIONS, THOSE WHO ARE NEUTROPENIC BUT AFEBRILE, TO ALLOW AN INCREASE IN THE DOSE-INTENSITY OF CYTOTOXIC CHEMO BEYOND ESTABLISHED DOSE RANGES, NO RESPONSE SEEN WITHIN 45 DAYS OF TREATMENT PREVENTION OF FEBRILE NEUTROPENIA WHEN RISK DUE TO MYELOSUPPRESIVE CHEMO REGIMEN IS 20% OR GREATER. TO PREVENT FEBRILE NEUTROPENIA WHEN THE RISK OF DEVELOPING FEBRILE NEUTROPENIA IS LESS THAN 20% WITH THE FOLLOWING RISK FACTORS: 65 YRS OR OLDER, POOR PERFORMANCE STATUS, PREVIOUS HISTORY OF FEBRILE NEUTROPENIA, EXTENSIVE PRIOR RADIATION OF CHEMO TREATMENT, POOR NUTRITIONAL STATUS, OPEN WOUNDS OR ACTIVE INFECTION, ADVANCED CANCER. PREVENTION OF FEBRILE NEUTROPENIA WHEN A PREVIOUS CYCLE RESULTED IN A NEUTROPENIC COMPLICATION AND DOSE REDUCTION WILL COMPROMISE DISEASE FREE OR OVERALL SURVIVAL OR TREATMENT OUTCOME, AS AN ADJUNCT TO ANTIBIOTICS FOR TREATMENT OF FEBRILE NEUTROPENIA WITH HIGH RISK FOR INFECTION RELATED COMPLICATIONS. FOR USE IN DOSE DENSE THERAPY, TO MOBILIZE PERIPHERAL BLOOD PROGENITOR CELL ADMINISTRATION AFTER AUTOLOGOUS PBPC TRANSPLANT, LYMPHOMA TREATED WITH CURATIVE THERAPY, LEUKEMIA OR MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROMES, NON-MYELOID MALIGNANCY, RADIATION THERAPY.
114 6 MONTHS
115 LEVALBUTEROL NEB LEVALBUTEROL HCL FAILURE ON, INTOLERANCE TO, OR CONTRAINDICATION TO ALBUTEROL SOLUTION FOR INHALATION.
116 LIDODERM LIDOCAINE DX OF POST-HERPETIC NEURALGIA FAILURE ON, CONTRAINDICTION TO, OR INTOLERANCE TO GABAPENTIN
117 LINZESS LINZESS DX OF IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME WITH CONSTIPATION OR CHRONIC IDIOPATHIC CONSTIPATION MUST 18 YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER DOCUMENTATION OF FAILURE ON, INTOLERANCE TO, OR CONTRAINDICATION TO TWO FORMULARY CATHARTICS AND LAXATIVES
118 LYNPARZA LYNPARZA ALL MEDICALLY ACCEPTED INDICATIONS NOT OTHERWISE EXCLUDED FROM PART D DIAGNOSIS OF DELETERIOUS OR SUSPECTED DELETERIOUS GERMLINE BRCA- MUTATED ADVANCED OVARIAN CANCER AS VERIFIED BY AN FDA APPROVED TEST MUST BE 18 YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER ONCOLOGIST OR HEMATOLOGIST 3 MONTHS DOCUMENTATION OF THERAPEUTIC FAILURE ON, INTOLERANCE TO, OR CONTRAINDICATION TO THREE OR MORE PRIOR LINES OF CHEMOTHERAPY.
119 MACROLIDES AZITHROMYCIN CLARITHROMYCIN CLARITHROMYCIN ER E.E.S. 400 ERY-TAB ERYTHROCIN STEARATE ERYTHROMYCIN ERYTHROMYCIN ETHYLSUCCINATE PCE PRIOR AUTHORIZATION APPLIES ONLY IF THERE IS CONCURRENT USE OF DIGOXIN AND ONE OF THE FOLLOWING MACROLIDE ANTIBIOTICS - CLARITHROMYCIN, ERYTHROMYCIN, OR AZITHROMYCIN. IF THE MEMBER IS NOT CONCURRENTLY RECEIVING DIOGXIN, PRIOR AUTHORIZATION WILL NOT BE REQUIRED. 1 MONTH FAILURE ON, INTOLERANCE TO, OR CONTRAINDICATION TO TWO FORMULARY ANTIBIOTIC CLASS ALTERNATIVES WHICH INCLUDE 2ND OR 3RD GENERATION CEPHALSPORINS (SUCH AS CEFACLOR OR CEFPODOXIME), PENICILLINS (SUCH AS AMOXICILLIN OR AMOXICILLIN/CLAVULANATE), OR QUINOLONES (SUCH AS CIPROFLOXACIN OR LEVOFLOXACIN) IF CONCURRENT USE OF DIGOXIN
120 MEKINIST MEKINIST ALL MEDICALLY ACCEPTED INDICATIONS NOT OTHERWISE EXCLUDED FROM PART D DIAGNOSIS OF UNRESECTABLE OR METASTATIC MELANOMA WITH OR WITHOUT CONCURRENT USE OF TAFINLAR (DABRAFENIB). DOCUMENTATION OF BRAF V600E OR V600K MUTATION AS DETECTED BY AN FDA APPROVED TEST ONCOLOGIST OR HEMATOLOGIST OR DERMATOLOGIST 6 MONTHS NO PRIOR THERAPEUTIC FAILURE WITH A BRAF INHIBITOR THERAPY (ZELBORAF (VEMURAFENIB) OR TAFINLAR (DABRAFENIB)) OR MEK INHIBITOR THERAPY SUCH AS MEKINIST.
121 MEPROBAMATE HRM MEPROBAMATE DIAGNOSIS OF ANXIETY ONLY APPLIES TO MEMBERS 65 YEARS OF AGE AND OLDER PRIOR AUTHORIZATION APPLIES ONLY TO MEMBERS 65 YEARS OF AGE AND OLDER WHO WILL BE EVALUATED FOR APPROPRIATE USE OF HIGH RISK MEDICATION AND WILL REQUIRE FAILURE ON, INTOLERANCE TO, OR CONTRAINDICATION TO TWO OF THE FOLLOWING: BUSPIRONE, PAROXETINE, ESCITALOPRAM, OR VENLAFAXINE XR.
122 MUSCLE RELAXANTS CARISOPRODOL CARISOPRODOL COMPOUND-CODEINE CARISOPRODOL-ASPIRIN CHLORZOXAZONE CYCLOBENZAPRINE HCL METAXALONE METHOCARBAMOL ORPHENADRINE CITRATE ONLY APPLIES TO MEMBERS 65 YEARS OF AGE AND OLDER PRIOR AUTHORIZATION APPLIES ONLY TO MEMBERS 65 YEARS OF AGE AND OLDER WHO WILL BE EVALUATED FOR APPROPRIATE USE OF HIGH RISK MEDICATION. USE IN MUSCLE SPASTICITY WILL REQUIRE TRIAL AND FAILURE WITH TIZANIDINE. USE IN MUSCULOSKELETAL CONDITIONS WILL REQUIRE THERAPEUTIC FAILURE ON, INTOLERANCE TO, OR CONTRAINDICATION TO TWO OF THE FOLLOWING: FORMULARY NSAIDS OR TRAMAOL.
123 MYOZYME MYOZYME DX OF INFANTILE ONSET POMPE DISEASE (IOPD) METABOLIC SPECIALIST
124 NAGLAZYME NAGLAZYME DX OF MUCOPOLYSACCHARIDOSIS VI (MAROTEAUX-LAMY DISEASE) METABOLIC SPECIALIST
125 NATPARA NATPARA DOCUMENTATIONS OF A DIAGNOSIS OF HYPOCALCEMIA SECONDARY TO HYPOPARATHYROIDISM AND DOCUMENTATION OF NO INCREASED BASELINE RISK FOR OSTEOSARCOMA AND DOCUMENTATION THAT PREVIOUS TREATMENT WITH CALCIUM SUPPLEMENTS AND ACTIVE FORMS OF VITAMIN D WERE NOT SUCCESSFUL IN TREATING HYPOCALCEMIA AND DOCUEMENTATION THAT MEDICATION IS GOING TO BE USED CONCURRENTLY WITH A CALCIUM SUPPLEMENT ENDOCRINOLOGIST 6 MONTHS REAUTHORIZATION WILL REQUIRE DOCUMENTATION SUPPORTING THE CONTINUED USE OF THE LOWEST DOSE THAT ACHIEVES A TOTAL SERUM CALCIUM (ALBUMIN CORRECTED) WITHIN THE LOWER HALF OF THE NORMAL TOTAL SERUM CALCIUM RANGE
126 NEULASTA NEULASTA PROPHYLAXIS DURING CHEMO REGIMENS WITH A FEBRILE NEUTROPENIA RISK LESS THAN 20% AND NO HIGH RISK FOR COMPLICATIONS, THOSE WHO ARE NEUTROPENIC BUT AFEBRILE, TO ALLOW AN INCREASE IN THE DOSE-INTENSITY OF CYTOTOXIC CHEMO BEYOND ESTABLISHED DOSE RANGES, NO RESPONSE SEEN WITHIN 45 DAYS OF TREATMENT PREVENTION OF FEBRILE NEUTROPENIA WHEN RISK DUE TO MYELOSUPPRESIVE CHEMO REGIMEN IS 20% OR GREATER. TO PREVENT FEBRILE NEUTROPENIA WHEN THE RISK OF DEVELOPING FEBRILE NEUTROPENIA IS LESS THAN 20% WITH THE FOLLOWING RISK FACTORS: 65 YRS OR OLDER, POOR PERFORMANCE STATUS, PREVIOUS HISTORY OF FEBRILE NEUTROPENIA, EXTENSIVE PRIOR RADIATION OF CHEMO TREATMENT, POOR NUTRITIONAL STATUS, OPEN WOUNDS OR ACTIVE INFECTION, ADVANCED CANCER. 6 MONTHS
127 NEUPOGEN NEUMEGA NEUPOGEN PROPHYLAXIS DURING CHEMO REGIMENS WITH A FEBRILE NEUTROPENIA RISK LESS THAN 20% AND NO HIGH RISK FOR COMPLICATIONS, THOSE WHO ARE NEUTROPENIC BUT AFEBRILE, TO ALLOW AN INCREASE IN THE DOSE-INTENSITY OF CYTOTOXIC CHEMO BEYOND ESTABLISHED DOSE RANGES, NO RESPONSE SEEN WITHIN 45 DAYS OF TREATMENT PREVENTION OF FEBRILE NEUTROPENIA WHEN RISK DUE TO MYELOSUPPRESIVE CHEMO REGIMEN IS 20% OR GREATER. TO PREVENT FEBRILE NEUTROPENIA WHEN THE RISK OF DEVELOPING FEBRILE NEUTROPENIA IS LESS THAN 20% WITH THE FOLLOWING RISK FACTORS: 65 YRS OR OLDER, POOR PERFORMANCE STATUS, PREVIOUS HISTORY OF FEBRILE NEUTROPENIA, EXTENSIVE PRIOR RADIATION OF CHEMO TREATMENT, POOR NUTRITIONAL STATUS, OPEN WOUNDS OR ACTIVE INFECTION, ADVANCED CANCER. PREVENTION OF FEBRILE NEUTROPENIA WHEN A PREVIOUS CYCLE RESULTED IN A NEUTROPENIC COMPLICATION AND DOSE REDUCTION WILL COMPROMISE DISEASE FREE OR OVERALL SURVIVAL OR TREATMENT OUTCOME, AS AN ADJUNCT TO ANTIBIOTICS FOR TREATMENT OF FEBRILE NEUTROPENIA WITH HIGH RISK FOR INFECTION RELATED COMPLICATIONS. FOR USE IN DOSE DENSE THERAPY, TO MOBILIZE PERIPHERAL BLOOD PROGENITOR CELL ADMINISTRATION AFTER AUTOLOGOUS PBPC TRANSPLANT, LYMPHOMA TREATED WITH CURATIVE THERAPY, LEUKEMIA OR MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROMES, NON-MYELOID MALIGNANCY, RADIATION THERAPY.
128 6 MONTHS
129 NEUPRO NEUPRO FAILURE ON, INTOLERANCE TO, OR CONTRAINDICATION TO PRAMIPEXOLE AND ROPINIROLE
130 NEXAVAR NEXAVAR ONCOLOGIST
131 NEXIUM IV ESOMEPRAZOLE SODIUM DOCUMENTATION OF FAILURE ON, INTOLERANCE TO, OR CONTRAINDICATION TO PANTOPRAZOLE IV.
132 NITROFURANTOIN NITROFURANTOIN NITROFURANTOIN MONO-MACRO ONLY APPLIES TO MEMBERS 65 YEARS OF AGE AND OLDER PRIOR AUTHORIZATION AND QUANTITY LIMIT APPLIES ONLY TO MEMBERS 65 YEARS OF AGE AND OLDER WHO WILL BE EVALUATED FOR APPROPRIATE USE OF HIGH RISK MEDICATION. WILL APPROVE FOR UP TO 90 DAYS SUPPLY WITHIN A 12 MONTH PERIOD. CONTINUED USE OVER A 90 DAYS SUPPLY FOR DX OF UTI WILL REQUIRE CREATININE CLEARANCE GREATER THAN OR EQUAL TO 60 ML/MIN AND POSITIVE CULTURE REPORT SHOWING THAT THE BACTERIA IS ONLY SENSITIVE TO NITROFURANTOIN OR ONLY SENSITIVE TO NITROFURANTOIN AND OTHER MEDICATIONS THAT THE MEMBER IS ALLERGIC TO OR FAILURE ON, INTOLERANCE TO, OR CONTRAINDICATION TO TWO OF THE FOLLOWING FORMULARY ALTERNATIVES: AMOXICILLIN/CLAVULANIC ACID, CEFUROXIME, CEFADROXIL, CEPHALEXIN, CIPROFLOXACIN, SULFAMETHOXAZOLE/TRIMETHOPRIM, OR TRIMETHOPRIM. CONTINUED PROPHYLACTIC USE OVER A 90 DAYS SUPPLY WILL REQUIRE CREATININE CLEARANCE GREATER THAN OR EQUAL TO 60 ML/MIN AND FAILURE ON,
133 INTOLERANCE TO, OR CONTRAINDICATION TO TWO OF THE FOLLOWING FORMULARY ALTERNATIVES: CEPHALEXIN, CIPROFLOXACIN, SULFAMETHOXAZOLE/TRIMETHOPRIM, OR TRIMETHOPRIM.
134 NOXAFIL NOXAFIL DOCUMENTATION OF USE FOR PROPHYLAXIS OF INVASIVE ASPERGILLUS AND CANDIDA INFECTIONS IN SEVERELY IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENTS (HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANT (HSCT) RECIPIENTS WITH GRAFT- VERSUS-HOST-DISEASE (GVHD) OR THOSE WITH HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCIES WITH PROLONGED NEUTROPENIA FROM CHEMOTHERAPY) OR DIAGNOSIS OF OROPHARYNGEAL CANDIDIASIS. FOR OROPHARYNGEAL CANDIDIASIS: FAILURE ON, INTOLERANCE TO, OR CONTRAINDICATION TO ITRACONAZOLE ORAL SOLUTION AND FLUCONAZOLE.
135 NUEDEXTA NUEDEXTA DIAGNOSIS OF PSEUDOBULBAR AFFECT IN PATIENTS WITH AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS (ALS) OR MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS (MS).
136 NULOJIX NULOJIX DOCUMENTATION OF RENAL TRANSPLANT DOCUMENTATION OF EPSTEIN-BARR VIRUS (EBV) SEROPOSITIVITY
137 NUVIGIL NUVIGIL DX OF OBSTRUCTIVE SLEEP APNEA/HYPOPNEA SYNDROME, NARCOLEPSY OR SHIFT-WORK FOR OBSTRUCTIVE SLEEP APNEA, DOCUMENTATION OF CPAP HISTORY OR STATUS. FAILURE ON, INTOLERANCE TO, OR CONTRAINDICATION TO MODAFINIL.
138 OLYSIO OLYSIO MEDICAL RECORD DOCUMENTATION OF HEPATITIS C GENOTYPE 1 AND CONCURRENT THERAPY WITH RIBAVIRIN AND PEGINTERFERON ALFA OR WITH SOVALDI IF PEGINTERFERON INELIGIBLE AND DOCUMENTATION OF AN FDA APPROVED MEDICATION REGIMEN AND DURATION OF TREATMENT AND DOCUMENTATION OF PREVIOUS TREATMENT AND TREATMENT RESPONSE AND DOCUMENTATION THAT THE MEMBER HAS NOT HAD AN INCOMPLETE COURSE OF TREATMENT WITH THE SAME DIRECT ACTING ANTIVIRAL THAT IS BEING REQUESTED AND/OR HAS NOT FAILED A TREATMENT REGIMEN OF AN ALTERNATIVE PROTEASE INHIBITOR AND DOCUMENTATION OF SCREENING FOR NS3 Q80K POLYMORPHISM IN GENOTYPE 1A MEMBERS TREATED WITH CONCURRENT USE OF PEGINTERFERON AND RIBAVIRIN WITH A NEGATIVE RESULT FOR THE Q80K POLYMORPHISM AND DOCUMENTATION OF CONCURRENT THERAPY WITH APPROPRIATE DOSE AND DURATION OF RIBAVIRIN (WEIGHT- BASED DOSING OF RIBAVIRIN 1200 MG PER DAY IF GREATER THAN OR EQUAL TO 75 KG OR 1000 MG PER DAY IF LESS THAN OR EQUAL TO 75 KG) AND DOCUMENTATION OF CONCURRENT THERAPY WITH APPROPRIATE DOSE AND DURATION OF PEGINTERFERON ALFA-2A 180 MCG BY SUBCUTANEOUS INJECTION WEEKLY AND DOCUMENTATION THAT DRUG INTERACTIONS AS DESCRIBED IN THE FDA APPROVED LABELING OF OLYSIO MUST BE ADDRESSED BY THE PRESCRIBER AND DOCUMENTATION OF THE FOLLOWING BASELINE LABS: HEPATIC FUNCTION PANEL, COMPLETE BLOOD COUNT INCLUDING DIFFERENTIAL, BASIC METABOLIC PANEL, BASELINE HCV RNA VIRAL LOAD AND DOCUMENTATION THAT MEMBER DOES NOT HAVE SEVERE RENAL IMPAIRMENT (EGFR RATE GREATER THAN OR EQUAL TO 30 ML/MIN) OR ESRD REQUIRING HEMODIALYSIS
139 MUST BE 18 YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER Geisinger Health Plan BOARD CERTIFIED GASTROENTEROLOGIST, HEPATOLOGIST, INFECTIOUS DISEASE SPECIALIST OR TRANSPLANT SPECIALIST 12 WEEKS
140 ONFI ONFI ALL MEDICALLY ACCEPTED INDICATIONS NOT OTHERWISE EXCLUDED FROM PART D DX OF LENNOX-GASTAUT SYNDROME OR FOR USE IN INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY AS DEFINED AS FAILURE ON TWO FORMULARY SEIZURE MEDICATIONS NEUROLOGIST
141 OPDIVO OPDIVO ALL MEDICALLY ACCEPTED INDICATIONS NOT OTHERWISE EXCLUDED FROM PART D DIAGNOSIS OF UNRESECTABLE OR METASTATIC MELANOMA OR DIAGNOSIS OF METASTATIC SQUAMOUS NON-SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER (NSCLC) AND DISEASE PROGRESSION WHILE OR OR AFTER PLATINUM-BASED CHEMOTHERAPY. MUST BE 18 YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER ONCOLOGIST OR HEMATOLOGIST 6 MONTHS DOCUMENTATION THAT OPDIVO IS NOT BEING USED IN COMBINATION WITH ANY OTHER AGENTS FOR THE TREATMENT OF UNRESECTABLE OR METASTATIC MELANOMA
142 OPSUMIT OPSUMIT DX OF WHO FUNCTIONAL CLASS II, III, OR IV PULMONARY ARTERIAL HYPERTENSION AND NEGATIVE PREGNANCY TEST IN FEMALES OF CHILDBEARING POTENTIAL CARDIOLOGIST OR PULMONOLOGIST DOCUMENTATION THAT OPSUMIT WILL BE USED IN COMBINATION WITH OR THERAPEUTIC FAILURE ON, INTOLERANCE TO, OR CONTRAINDICATION TO SILDENAFIL AND THERAPEUTIC FAILURE ON, INTOLERANCE TO, OR CONTRAINDICATION TO TRACLEER
143 ORENCIA ORENCIA DX OF RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS MADE IN ACCORADANCE WITH THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF RHEUMATOLOGY CRITERIA FOR THE CLASSIFICATION AND DIAGNOSIS OF RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS AND DOCUMENATION OF THE NUMBER OF SWOLLEN OR TENDER JOINTS PRIOR TO INITIATING THERAPY WITH A MINIMUM DOCUMENTED JOINT COUNT OF GREATER THAN FOUR SWOLLEN OR TENDER JOINTS BASED ON A 28 JOINT COUNT FOR RA - MUST BE 18 YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER RHEUMATOLOGIST 6 MONTHS INITIAL AND 1 YEAR CONTINUATION DOCUMENTATION OF AN INADEQUATE RESPONSE TO A MINIMUM 3 MONTH TRIAL OF HUMIRA AND ENBREL
144 ORENITRAM ORENITRAM ER DOCUMENTATION OF WHO GROUP 1 PULMONARY ARTERIAL HYPERTENSION WITH WHO FUNCTIONAL CLASS II OR III SYMPTOMS CARDIOLOGIST OR PULMONOLOGIST 6 MONTHS DOCUMENTATION OF A BASELINE 6-MINUTE WALKING DISTANCE. DOCUMENTATION THAT ORENITRAM IS NOT BEING USED IN COMBINATION WITH ENDOTHELIN RECEPTOR ANTAGONISTS (LETAIRIS, TRACLEER, OPSUMIT) OR PDE5 INHIBITORS (REVATIO OR ADCIRCA). REAUTHORIZATION WILL REQUIRE DOCUMENTATION OF AN IMPROVEMENT IN 6-MINUTE WALKING DISTANCE FROM BASELINE OR IMPROVED OR STABLE DIAGNOSIS OF WHO FUNCTIONAL CLASS AND DOCUMENTATION THAT ORENITRAM IS NOT BEING USED IN COMBINATION WITH ENDOTHELIN RECEPTOR ANTAGONISTS (LETAIRIS, TRACLEER, OPSUMIT) OR PDE5 INHIBITORS (REVATIO OR ADCIRCA).
145 OTEZLA OTEZLA DOCUMENTATION OF ACTIVE PSORIATIC ARTHRITIS WHICH MUST INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING: DOCUMENTATION OF AT LEAST THREE SWOLLEN JOINTS AND AT LEAST THREE TENDER OR PAINFUL JOINTS AND DOCUMENTATION OF EITHER ACTIVE PSORIATIC LESIONS OR A DOCUMENTED HISTORY OF PSORIASIS. DOCUMENTATION OF MODERATE TO SEVERE PLAQUE PSORIASIS CHARACTERIZED BY 5% OR GREATER INVOLVMENT OF BOADY SURFACE AREA OR DISEASE INVOVLING CRUCIAL BODY AREAS SUCH AS THE HANDS, FEET, FACE, OR GENITALS. MUST BE 18 YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER RHEUMATOLOGIST OR DERMATOLOGIST 6 MONTHS INITIAL AND 1 YEAR CONTINUATION FOR PSORIATIC ARTHRITIS: FAILURE ON, INTOLERANCE TO, OR CONTRAINDICATION TO AT LEAST 3 MONTHS OF THERAPY WITH HUMIRA AND CIMZIA. FOR PLAQUE PSORIASIS: FAILURE ON, INTOLERANCE TO, OR CONTRAINDICATION TO A MINIMUM 3 MONTH TRIAL OF HUMIRA. FOR CONTINUED THERAPY, MEDICAL RECORD DOCUMENTATION OF CLINICAL OR SUSTAINED IMPROVEMENT OF SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS OF PSORIATIC ARTHRITIS OR PLAQUE PSORIASIS.
146 PERFOROMIST PERFOROMIST DX OF COPD MUST BE 18 YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER FAILURE ON, INTOLERANCE TO, OR CONTRAINDICATION TO FORADIL AND SEREVENT OR DOCUMENTATION OF INABILITY TO USE AN INHALER.
147 PERJETA PERJETA ALL MEDICALLY ACCEPTED INDICATIONS NOT OTHERWISE EXCLUDED FROM PART D DOCUMENTATION OF HER2 POSITIVE METASTATIC BREAST CANCER WHO HAVE NOT RECEIVED PRIOR ANTI-HER2 THERAPY OR CHEMOTHERAPY FOR METASTATIC DISEASE AND PERJETA BEING USED IN COMBINATION WITH TRASTUZUMAB AND DOCETAXEL/PACLITAXEL
148 PICATO PICATO ALL MEDICALLY ACCEPTED INDICATIONS NOT OTHERWISE EXCLUDED FROM PART D DOCUMENTATION OF GREATER THAN OR EQUAL TO 4 ACTINIC KERTOSIS LESIONS WITHIN A CONTIGUOUS 25 CM SQUARED AREA DERMATOLOGIST FAILURE ON, INTOLERANCE TO, OR CONTRAINDICATION TO FLUOROURACIL
149 POMALYST POMALYST ALL MEDICALLY ACCEPTED INDICATIONS NOT OTHERWISE EXCLUDED FROM PART D DIAGNOSIS OF MULTIPLE MYELOMA HEMATOLOGIST OR ONCOLOGIST 3 MONTHS FAILURE ON, INTOLERANCE TO, OR CONTRAINDICATION TO TWO PRIOR THERAPIES: BORTEZOMIB (VELCADE) AND LENALIDOMIDE (REVLIMID).
150 POTIGA POTIGA DIAGNOSIS OF PARTIAL ONSET SEIZURES MUST BE 18 YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER FAILURE ON, INTOLERANCE TO, OR CONTRAINDICATION TO TWO FORMULARY ANTICONVULSANTS
151 PROCRIT PROCRIT ALL MEDICALLY ACCEPTED INDICATIONS NOT OTHERWISE EXCLUDED FROM PART D FOR NON-SURGICAL INDICATIONS: HEMOGLOBIN MUST BE LESS THAN 11GM/DL FOR NEW STARTS OR LESS THAN 12GM/DL FOR CONTINUATION OF THERAPY. DOCUMENTATION OF ADEQUATE IRON STORES W/ SERUM FERRITIN GREATER THAN 100 NG/ML OR TRANSFERRIN LEVEL SATURATION GREATER THAN 20%. TX OF SYMPTOMATIC ANEMIA OF CHRONIC RENAL INSUFFICIENCY, CHRONIC RENAL FAILURE, INCLUDING ESRD. TX OF SYMPTOMATIC ANEMIA IN AZT TREATED HIV INFECTED INDIVIDUALS - MUST HAVE ENDOGENOUS ERYTHROPOIETIN LEVELS OF 500MU/ML OR LESS AND AZT DOSES OF 4200MG/WEEK OR LESS. TX OF SYMPTOMATIC ANEMIA ASSOCIATE WITH HEP C - MUST BE ON INTERFERON OR PEGYLATED INTERFERON AND RIBIVRIN. TX OF ANEMIA IN NON-HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCY - MUST BE ON ANEMIA CAUSING CHEMO OR RECEIVED ANEMIA INDUCING CHEMO IN LAST 3 MONTHS. TX OF SYMPTOMATIC ANEMIA SECONDARY TO MDS - BASELINE ENDOGENOUS ERYTHROPOEITIN LEVEL OF 500MU/ML OR LESS. TX OF SYMPTOMATIC ANEMIA OF CHRONIC DISEASE - SEVERE COMORBIDITY AND IMPAIRMENTS TO ADL, EXERCISE INTOLERANCE, TACHYCARDIA AND SOB WITH MINIMAL ACTIVITY. TX OF ANEMIA IN MULTIPLE MYELOMA - DOCUMENTATION OF CHEMO OR TRANSFUSION DEPENDENCE OR RENAL INSUFFICIENCY. 3 MONTHS
152 FOR SURGICAL INDICATIONS: HEMOGLOBIN MUST BE GREATER THAN 10GM/DL BUT LESS THAN 13GM/DL. FOR ALLOGENEIC BLOOD TRANSFUSION IN ANEMIC INDIVIDUALS UNDERGOING SURGERY IN ELECTIVE NON CARDIAC, NON-VASCULAR SURGERY WHERE ANTICIPATED BLOOD LOSS IS GREATER THAN 2 UNITS AND NEED FOR TRANSFUSION IS ANTICIPATED. TREATMENT OF ANEMIC PATIENTS WHO ARE AT HIGH RISK FOR PERI-OPERATIVE BLOOD LOSS FROM ELECTIVE, NON-CARDIAC, OR NON-VASCULAR SURGERY TO REDUCE THE NEED FOR ALLOGENIC BLOOD TRANSFUSIONS.THIS DRUG MAY BE EITHER BUNDLED WITH AND COVERED UNDER END STAGE RENAL DISEASE DIALYSIS RELATED SERVICES OR COVERED UNDER MEDICARE D DEPENDING UPON THE CIRCUMSTANCES. INFORMATION MAY NEED TO BE SUBMITTED DESCRIBING THE USE AND SETTING OF THE DRUG TO MAKE THE DETERMINATION.
153 PROLIA PROLIA FOR WOMEN: DX OF POST-MENOPAUSAL OSTEOPOROSIS WITH DOCUMENTATION OF PREVIOUS OSTEOPOROTIC FRACTURE OR HIGH RISK OF FRACTURE DEFINED AS A SPINE OR HIP DXA T-SCORE OF LESS THAN OR EQUAL TO -2.5, SUPPORTING CLINICAL FACTORS AND/OR FRAX CALCULATION. OR DX OF OSTEOPENIA IN WOMEN AT HIGH RISK OF FRACTURE RECEIVING ADJUVANT AROMATASE INHIBITOR THERAPY FOR BREAST CANCER. FOR MEN: DX OF OSTEOPOROSIS WITH DOCUMENTATION OF PREVIOUS OSTEOPOROTIC FRACTURE OR HIGH RISK OF FRACTURE DEFINED AS A SPINE OR HIP DXA T-SCORE OF LESS THAN OR EQUAL TO -2.0, SUPPORTING CLINICAL FACTORS AND/OR FRAX CALCULATION. OR DX OF OSTEOPENIA IN MEN AT HIGH RISK OF FRACTURE RECEIVING ANDROGEN DEPRIVATION THERAPY FOR NON-METASTATIC PROSTATE CANCER. FAILURE ON, INTOLERANCE TO, OR CONTRAINDICATION TO ONE ORAL BISPHOSPHONATE
154 PROMACTA PROMACTA DX OF CHRONIC IMMUNE (IDIOPATHIC) THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA (ITP) WITH FAILURE ON, INTOLERANCE TO, OR CONTRAINDICATION TO CORTICOSTEROIDS, IMMUNOGLOBULINS, OR SPLENECTOMY AND SYMPTOMATIC ITP WITH BLEEDING SYMPTOMS OR A PLATELET COUNT OF LESS THAN 20,000/MICROL WITH INCREASED RISK OF BLEEDING. DX OF CHRONIC HEPATITIS C AND PLAN TO INITIATE OR CONTINUE INTERFERON-BASE THERAPY AND A PLATELET COUNT OF 50,000/MICROL OR LESS. FOR ITP: PRESCRIBED BY HEMATOLOGIST OR ONCOLOGIST. FOR CHRONIC HEPATITIS C: PRESCRIBED BY GASTROENTEROLOGIST, HEMATOLOGIST, ONCOLOGIST, HEPATOLOGIST OR INFECTIOUS DISEASE PHYSICIAN. 1 YEAR
155 PROMETHAZINE HRM PROMETHAZINE HCL PROMETHAZINE VC PROMETHEGAN ONLY APPLIES TO MEMBERS 65 YEARS OF AGE AND OLDER PRIOR AUTHORIZATION APPLIES ONLY TO MEMBERS 65 YEARS OF AGE AND OLDER WHO WILL BE EVALUATED FOR APPROPRIATE USE OF HIGH RISK MEDICATION. DIAGNOSIS OF ALLERGIC CONDITIONS (PRURITUS, URTICARIA, SEASONAL OR PERENNIAL ALLERGIES) WILL REQUIRE FAILURE ON, INTOLERANCE TO, OR CONTRAINDICATION TO DESLORATADINE AND LEVOCETIRIZINE. DIAGNOSIS OF NAUSEA AND VOMITING WILL REQUIRE DIAGNOSIS OF CANCER OR FAILURE ON, INTOLERANCE TO, OR CONTRAINDICATION TO ONDANSETRON AND PROCHLORPERAZINE. DIAGNOSIS OF MOTION SICKNESS WILL REQUIRE FAILURE ON, INTOLERANCE TO, OR CONTRAINDICATION TO MECLIZINE. FOR USE IN SEDATION INCLUDING PRODUCTION OF LIGHT SLEEP, REQUIRE FAILURE ON, INTOLERANCE TO, OR CONTRAINDICATION TO ROZEREM AND SILENOR.
156 PROTOPIC TACROLIMUS DIAGNOSIS OF ATOPIC DERMATITIS FAILURE ON, INTOLERANCE TO OR CONTRAINDICATION TO AT LEAST 2 FORMULARY TOPICAL CORTICOSTEROIDS (INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO FLUOCINOLONE, HYDROCORTISONE 2.5%, BETAMETHASONE, TRIAMCINOLONE, CLOBETASOL) UNLESS INADVISABLE DUE TO RISKS (SUCH AS USE ON SENSITIVE SKIN AREAS (FACE, AXILLAE, GROIN))
157 PROVIGIL MODAFINIL DX OF OBSTRUCTIVE SLEEP APNEA/HYPOPNEA SYNDROME, NARCOLEPSY OR SHIFT-WORK FOR OBSTRUCTIVE SLEEP APNEA, DOCUMENTATION OF CPAP HISTORY OR STATUS. FAILURE ON, INTOLERANCE TO, OR CONTRAINDICATION TO MODAFINIL.
158 PULMOZYME PULMOZYME DX OF CYSTIC FIBROSIS PULMONOLOGIST
159 QUININE QUININE SULFATE FOR TREATMENT OF UNCOMPLICATED PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM MALARIA 7 DAYS
160 RELISTOR RELISTOR MEDICAL RECORD DOCUMENTATION OF ADVANCED ILLNESS RECEIVING PALLIATIVE CARE. CONCURRENT USE OF OPIOD THERAPY. FAILURE ON, INTOLERANCE TO, OR CONTRAINDICATION TO LACTULOSE AND POLYETHYLENE GLYCOL 3350.
161 REMICADE REMICADE CROHN'S DISEASE- DIAGNOSIS OF MODERATE TO SEVERE CROHN'S AND DOCUMENTATION OF FAILURE ON, INTOLERANCE TO, OR CONTRAINDICATION TO ONE CONVENTIONAL THERAPY (AMINOSALICYLATES, CORTICOSTEROIDS, OR IMMUNOMODULATORS) AND 12 WEEKS OF HUMIRA THERAPY OR DIAGNOSIS OF CROHN'S WITH ACTIVE DRAINING FISTULAS. RA - DIAGNOSIS OF MODERATE TO SEVERE RA AND A FAILURE ON, INTOLERANCE TO, OR CONTRAINDICATION TO 12 WEEKS OF ENBREL AND HUMIRA THERAPY. ANKYLOSING SPONDYLITIS - DOCUMENTATION OF 12 WEEKS OF ENBREL AND HUMIRA THERAPY. PLAQUE PSORIASIS - DIAGNOSIS OF CHRONIC, SEVERE PLAQUE PSORIASIS WITH AT LEAST 5% BSA OR AFFECTING CRUCIAL BODY AREAS SUCH AS HANDS, FEET, FACE OR GENITALS AND FAILURE ON, INTOLERANCE ON, OR CONTRAINDICATION TO 12 WEEKS OF ENBREL AND HUMIRA THERAPY. PSORIATIC ARTHRITIS - DIAGNOSIS OF MODERATELY TO SEVERELY ACTIVE PSA WITH HISTORY OF PSORIASIS OR ACTIVE PSORIATIC LESIONS AND 12 WEEKS OF ENBREL AND HUMIRA THERAPY. ULCERATIVE COLITIS - DIAGNOSIS OF MODERATE TO SEVERE UC AND INTOLERANCE, FAILURE ON, OR CONTRAINDICATION TO TWO OF THE FOLLOWING (AMINOSALICYLATES, CORTICOSTEROIDS AND IMMUNOMODULATORS). MUST BE AT LEAST 18 YEARS OF AGE FOR THE FOLLOWING DIAGNOSES - RA,,ANKYLOSING SPONDYLITIS, PLAQUE PSORIASIS, AND PSORIATIC ARTHRITIS, MUST BE AT LEAST 6 YEARS OF AGE FOR CHRON'S DISEASE AND ULCERATIVE COLITIS.
162 Geisinger Health Plan RHEUMATOLOGIST OR DERMATOLOGIST OR GASTROENTEROLOGIST 6 MONTHS INITIAL AND 1 YEAR CONTINUATION FOR RA, REMICADE MUST BE USED IN COMBINATION WITH METHOTREXATE. FIRST LINE THERAPY FOR UC INCLUDES TRIALS OF TWO OF THE FOLLOWING, CORTICOSTEROIDS, AMINOSALICYLATES, AND IMMUNOMODULATORS (6- MERCAPTOPURINE AND AZATHIOPRINE).
163 REVATIO REVATIO SILDENAFIL SILDENAFIL CITRATE CONCOMITANT USE OF ORGANIC NITRATES DOCUMENTATION OF A DIAGNOSIS OF FUNCTIONAL CLASS 2, 3, OR 4 PULMONARY ARTERIAL HYPERTENSION. PULMONOLOGIST OR CARDIOLOGIST
164 REVLIMID REVLIMID DX OF MULTIPLE MYELOMA. DX OF NON-HODGKIN LYMPHOMA (NHL) RELAPSED, REFRACTORY, PROGRESSIVE DISEASE, OR MEMBERS WHO ARE NOT CANDIDATES FOR HIGH DOSE THERAPY. DX OF MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROMES (MDS) EITHER WITH A DELETION 5Q CYTOGENETIC ABNORMALITY WITH OR WITHOUT ADDITIONAL CYTOGENETIC ABNORMALITIES OR WITH NO DELETION 5Q CYTOGENETIC ABNORMALITY. DX OF RELAPSED, REFRACTORY, OR PROGRESSIVE MANTLE CELL LYMPHOMA WITH THERAPEUTIC FAILURE ON, INTOLERANCE TO, OR CONTRAINDICATION TO ONE PRIOR THERAPY INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO HYPERCVAD, NORDIC REGIMEN, CALGB REGIMEN, RCHOP/RICE, RCHOP/RDHAP, BENDAMUSTINE PLUS RITUXIMAB, CHOP PLUS RITUXIMAB, CLADRIBINE PLUS RITUXIMAB, CVP PLUS RITUXIMAB, EPOCH PLUS RITUXIMAB. ONCOLOGIST OR HEMATOLOGIST FOR MDS WITH NO DELETION 5Q CYTOGENETIC ABNORMALITY: DOCUMENTATION OF INITIAL USE IN LOWER RISK PATIENT WITH SYMPTOMATIC ANEMIA AND SERUM ERYTHROPOIETIN LEVELS GREATER THAN 500 MU/ML AND A
165 LOW PROBABILITY (DEFINED AS MEMBERS WHO LACK ANY OF THE FOLLOWING FEATURES: AGE LESS THAN OR EQUAL TO 60, OR THOSE WITH HYPOCELLULAR MARROW, HLA-DR 15 OR PHN CLONE POSITIVITY) OF RESPONSE TO IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE THERAPY OR DOCUMENTATION OF LOWER RISK PATIENT WITH SYMPTOMATIC ANEMIA AND NO RESPONSE TO INITIAL TREATMENT WITH EPOETIN ALFA OR DARBOPOETIN ALFA, HYPOMETHYLATING AGENTS, OR IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE THERAPY.
166 REXULTI REXULTI DIAGNOSIS OF SCHIZOPHRENIA OR ADJUNCTIVE TREATMENT FOR MAJOR DEPRESSIVE DISORDER (MDD). MUST BE 18 YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER FOR MDD, DOCUMENTATION OF THERAPEUTIC FAILURE ON, INTOLERANCE TO, OR CONTRAINDICATION TO AT LEAST A 4 WEEK TRIAL OF COMBINATION THERAPY WITH ARIPIPRAZOLE AND AN ANTIDEPRESSANT AND EITHER DOCUMENTATION OF THERAPEUTIC FAILURE ON, INTOLERANCE TO, OR CONTRAINDICATION TO AT LEAST A 4 WEEK TRIAL OF COMBINATION ANTIDEPRESSANT THERAPY (SUCH AS AN SSRI AND BUPROPION OR AN SNRI AND BUPROPION) OR DOCUMENTATION OF THERAPEUTIC FAILURE ON, INTOLERANCE TO, OR CONTRAINDICATION TO AT LEAST A 4 WEEK TRIAL OF AN ANTIDEPRESSANT WITH AUGMENTATION THERAPY (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO LITHIUM, VALPROATE, CARBAMAZEPINE AND LAMOTRIGINE). FOR SCHIZOPHRENIA, DOCUMENTATION OF A THERAPEUTIC FAILURE ON, INTOLERANCE TO, OR CONTRAINDICATION TO TWO OF THE FOLLOWING: OLANZAPINE, RISPERIDONE, QUETIAPINE IR, OR ZIPRASIDONE.
167 RISPERDAL CONSTA RISPERDAL CONSTA DIAGNOSIS OF SCHIZOPHRENIA MUST BE 18 YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER DOCUMENTED HISTORY OF POOR ADHERENCE TO ORAL MEDICATIONS AND DOCUMENTATION THAT PATIENT EDUCATION TO IMPROVE ADHERENCE HAS BEEN ATTEMPTED.
168 RITUXAN RITUXAN ALL MEDICALLY ACCEPTED INDICATIONS NOT OTHERWISE EXCLUDED FROM PART D DX OF RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS MADE IN ACCORADANCE WITH THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF RHEUMATOLOGY CRITERIA FOR THE CLASSIFICATION AND DIAGNOSIS OF RA & DOCUMENATION OF THE NUMBER OF SWOLLEN OR TENDER JOINTS PRIOR TO INITIATING THERAPY WITH A MINIMUM DOCUMENTED JOINT COUNT OF GREATER THAN FOUR SWOLLEN OR TENDER JOINTS BASED ON A 28 JOINT COUNT. DX OF CHRONIC LYMPHOID LEUKEMIA USED IN COMBO WITH FLUDARABINE & CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE. DX OF MICROSCOPIC POLYARTERITIS NODOSA USED IN COMBO WITH GLUCOCORTICOIDS. DX OF NON-HODGKINS LYMPHOMA, DIFFUSE, LARGE B-CELL, CD20-POSITIVE USED IN COMBO FOR 1ST LINE TREATMENT. DX OF NON-HODGKINS LYMPHOMAS, FOLLICULAR, CD20- POSITIVE, B-CELL, IN COMBO WITH 1ST LINE CHEMO AND AS SINGLE-AGENT MAINTENANCE. DX OF NON-HODGKINS LYMPHOMA, LOW-GRADE, CD20- POSITIVE,B-CELL, STABLE OR RESPONSIVE TO PRIOR CVP (CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE, VINCRISTINE, AND PREDNISONE) CHEMO. DX OF NON-HODGKINS LYMPHOMA, RELAPSED OR REFRACTORY, LOW-GRADE OR FOLLICULAR, CD20-POSITIVE, B- CELL. DX OF WEGENER'S GRANULOMATOSIS IN COMBO WITH GLUCOCORTICOIDS. FOR RA - MUST BE 18 YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER FOR RA - RHEUMATOLOGIST
169 Geisinger Health Plan FOR RA - ONE COURSE OF THERAPY. ALL OTHER DIAGNOSES - REMAINDER OF CONTRACT YEAR. FOR RA - DOCUMENTATION OF AN INADEQUATE RESPONSE TO A MINIMUM 3 MONTH TRIAL OF HUMIRA AND ENBREL. ONE COURSE OF THERAPY IS DEFINED AS TWO INFUSIONS GIVEN ON DAY 1 AND ANOTHER ON DAY 15. ADDITIONAL COURSES MAY BE CONSIDERED MEDICALLY NECESSARY IF AT LEAST 6 MONTHS HAS ELAPSED SINCE THE PREVIOUS TREATMENT COURSE AND DOCUMENTATION OF IMPROVEMENT
170 RUXOLITINIB JAKAFI ALL MEDICALLY ACCEPTED INDICATIONS NOT OTHERWISE EXCLUDED FROM PART D DIAGNOSIS OF INTERMEDIATE OR HIGH-RISK MYELOFIBROSIS, INCLUDING PRIMARY MYELOFIBROSIS, POST-POLYCYTHEMIA VERA MYELOFIBROSIS OR POST-ESSENTIAL THROMBOCYTHEMIA MYELOFIBROSIS AND PLATELET COUNT GREATER THAN OR EQUAL TO 100 X (10 TO THE 9TH POWER) / L AND SPLENOMEGALY AS MEASURED BY CT, MRI, OR ULTRASOUND AND BASELINE TOTAL SYMPTOM SCORE AS MEASURED BY THE MODIFIED MYELOFIBROSIS SYMPTOM ASSESSMENT FORM (MFSAF) ONCOLOGIST OR HEMATOLOGIST 6 MONTHS CONTINUED COVERAGE EVERY 6 MONTHS WILL REQUIRE MEDICAL RECORD DOCUMENTATION OF PLATELET COUNT GREATER THAN OR EQUAL TO 50 X 10(9) / L AND REDUCTION FROM PRETREATMENT BASELINE OF AT 35% IN SPLEEN VOLUME AS MEASURED BY CT, MRI, OR ULTRASOUND OR A 50% OR GREATER REDUCTION IN THE TOTAL SYMPTOM SCORE FROM BASELINE AS MEASURED BY THE MODIFIED MYELOFIBROSIS SYMPTOM ASSESSMENT FORM (MFSAF)
171 SABRIL SABRIL DX OF REFRACTORY COMPLEX PARTIAL SEIZURES. DX OF INFANTILE SPASMS. INFANTILE SPASMS - 1 MONTH TO 2 YEARS OF AGE NEUROLOGIST FOR REFRACTORY COMPLEX PARTIAL SEIZURES MUST BE ON CONCOMMITANT THERAPY WITH ANOTHER SEIZURE CONTROL MEDICATION
172 SAPHRIS SAPHRIS DX OF BIPOLAR DISORDER OR SCHIZOPHRENIA MEDICAL RECORD DOCUMENTATION OF TRIAL ON TWO FORMULARY ALTERNATIVES (ABILIFY, GEODON, RISPERIDONE,SEROQUEL, OR ZYPREXA).
173 SEROSTIM SEROSTIM FOR THE TREATMENT OF HIV PATIENTS WITH WASTING OR CACHEXIA
174 SIGNIFOR LAR SIGNIFOR LAR DOCUMENTATION OF A DIAGNOSIS OF ACROMEGALY AND DOCUMENTATION THAT PITUITARY SURGERY IS NOT AN OPTION OR HAS PROVIDED AN INADEQUATE RESPONSE ENDOCRINOLOGIST 6 MONTHS FAILURE ON, INTOLERANCE TO, OR CONTRAINDICATION TO OCTREOTIDE AND SOMATULINE DEPOT. REAUTHORIZATION REQUIRES IMPROVEMENT OF IGF-1 OR GH LEVELS
175 SIMPONI SIMPONI DX OF RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS AND BEING USED IN CONJUNCTION WITH METHOTREXATE OR DX OF PSORIATIC ARTHRITIS OR DX OF ANKYLOSING SPONDYLITIS OR DX OF MODERATE TO SEVERE ULCERATIVE COLITIS. FOR ULCERATIVE COLITIS - MUST BE 18 YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER RHEUMATOLOGIST, GASTROENTEROLOGIST, DERMATOLOGIST 6 MONTHS INITIAL AND 1 YEAR CONTINUATION FOR RA, PSORIATIC ARTHRITIS, AND ANKYLOSING SPONDYLITIS: FAILURE ON, INTOLERANCE TO, OR CONTRAINDICATION TO ENBREL AND HUMIRA. FOR ULCERATIVE COLITIS: FAILURE ON, INTOLERANCE TO, OR CONTRAINDICATION TO HUMIRA. FOR CONTINUED THERAPY, MEDICAL RECORD DOCUMENTATION SHOWING MAINTENANCE OR IMPROVEMENT OF CONDITION.
176 SIMPONI ARIA SIMPONI ARIA FOR DX OF RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS BEING USED IN CONJUNCTION WITH METHOTREXATE RHEUMATOLOGIST 6 MONTHS INITIAL AND 1 YEAR CONTINUATION FAILURE ON, INTOLERANCE TO, OR CONTRAINDICATION TO ENBREL AND HUMIRA. FOR CONTINUED THERAPY. MEDICAL RECORD DOCUMENTATION SHOWING MAINTENANCE OR IMPROVEMENT OF CONDITION.
177 SIMVASTATIN 40MG AND 80MG SIMVASTATIN PRIOR AUTHORIZATION APPLIES ONLY IF THERE IS CONCURRENT USE OF AMIODARONE AND THE DOSE OF SIMVASTATIN EXCEEDS 20MG/DAY. IF THE MEMBER IS NOT CONCURRENTLY RECEIVING AMIODARONE, PRIOR AUTHORIZATION WILL NOT BE REQUIRED. FAILURE ON, INTOLERANCE TO, OR CONTRAINDICATION TO PRAVASTATIN AND ROSUVASTATIN IF CONCURRENT USE OF AMIODARONE
178 SIVEXTRO SIVEXTRO DIAGNOSIS OF AN ACUTE BACTERIAL SKIN AND SKIN STRUCTURE INFECTION (INCLUDING CELLULITIS/ERYSIPELAS, WOUND INFECTION, AND MAJOR CUTANEOUS ABSCESS) CAUSED BY STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS, STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES, STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE, STREPTOCOCCUS ANGINOSUS, STREPTOCOCCUS INTERMEDIUS, STREPTOCOCCUS CONSTELLATUS, OR ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS MUST BE 18 YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER DIAGNOSED AND DOCUMENTED WITH INFECTIOUS DISEASE CONSULTATION ONE-TIME COURSE OF THERAPY OF 6 DAYS DOCUMENTATION OF A CULTURE AND SENSITIVITY SHOWING THE PATIENT'S INFECTION IS NOT SUSCEPTIBLE TO ALTERNATIVE ANTIBIOTICS TREATMENTS OR A DOCUMENTED HISTORY OF PREVIOUS INTOLERANCE TO OR CONTRAINDICATION TO OTHER ANTIBIOTICS SHOWN TO BE SUSCEPTIBLE ON THE CULTURE AND SENSITIVITY.
179 SLEEPERS ZALEPLON ZOLPIDEM TARTRATE ZOLPIDEM TARTRATE ER ONLY APPLIES TO MEMBERS 65 YEARS OF AGE AND OLDER PRIOR AUTHORIZATION AND QUANTITY LIMIT APPLIES ONLY TO MEMBERS 65 YEARS OF AGE AND OLDER WHO WILL BE EVALUATED FOR APPROPRIATE USE OF HIGH RISK MEDICATION. REQUESTS FOR GREATER THAN 90 DAYS CUMULATIVE USE WITHIN THE PAST 365 DAYS WILL REQUIRE FAILURE ON, CONTRAINDICATION TO, OR INTOLERANCE TO ROZEREM AND SILENOR.
180 SOLARAZE DICLOFENAC SODIUM DIAGNOSIS OF ACTINIC KERATOSIS WITH DOCUMENTATION OF USE ON SCALP, FOREHEAD, FACE, ARMS, FOREARMS, OR BACK OF HANDS. DERMATOLOGIST
181 SOMATULINE DEPOT SOMATULINE DEPOT DX OF ACROMEGALY INADEQUATE RESPONSE OR CONTRAINDICATION TO SURGERY AND/OR RADIOTHERAPY
182 SORIATANE ACITRETIN ALL MEDICALLY ACCEPTED INDICATIONS NOT OTHERWISE EXCLUDED FROM PART D DIAGNOSIS OF SEVERE PSORIASIS WITH AT LEAST 5% BSA OR AFFECTING CRUCIAL BODY AREAS SUCH AS HANDS, FEET, FACE OR GENITALS OR DOCUMENTATION OF USE AS CHEMOPREVENTION OF SKIN CANCERS IN HIGH-RISK RENAL TRANSPLANT RECIPIENTS. FOR PSORIASIS: PRESCRIBED BY DERMATOLOGIST FOR PSORIASIS: FAILURE ON, INTOLERANCE TO, OR CONTRAINDICATION TO ONE TOPICAL CORTICOSTEROID AND AT LEAST 2 TO 3 MONTHS OF METHOTREXATE OR PHOTOTHERAPY.
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
184 12 WEEKS
185 SPRYCEL SPRYCEL DX OF CML OR PH+ ALL HEMATOLOGIST OR ONCOLOGIST 3 MONTHS FOR CML - DOCUMENTATION OF THE USE OF SPRYCEL TO TREAT CHRONIC PHASE CML OR DOCUMENTATION OF THE USE OF SPRYCEL TO TREATE CML WITH RESISTANCE OR INTOLERANCE TO PRIOR THERAPY INCLUDING GLEEVEC. FOR PH+ ALL - DOCUMENTATION OF THE USE OF SPRYCEL TO TREAT PH+ ALL WITH RESISTANCE OR INTOLERANCE TO PRIOR THERAPY.
186 STELARA STELARA DX OF MODERATE TO SEVERE PLAQUE PSORIASIS WITH AT LEAST 5% BSAOR AFFECTING CRUCIAL BODY AREAS SUCH AS HANDS, FEET, FACE OR GENITALS. DX OF ACTIVE PSORIATIC ARTHRITIS WITH DOCUMENTATION OF AT LEAST 3 SWOLLEN JOINTS AND AT LEAST 3 TENDER OR PAINFUL JOINTS AND DOCUMENTATION OF EITHER ACTIVE PSORIATIC LESIONS OR A DOCUMENTED HISTORY OF PSORIASIS DERMATOLOGIST OR RHEUMATOLOGIST 6 MONTHS INITIAL AND 1 YEAR CONTINUATION DOCUMENTATION OF FAILURE ON, INTOLERANCE TO, OR CONTRAINDICATION TO HUMIRA AND ENBREL. FOR CONTINUED THERAPY, MEDICAL RECORD DOCUMENTATION SHOWING MAINTENANCE OR IMPROVEMENT OF CONDITION.
187 STIVARGA STIVARGA ALL MEDICALLY ACCEPTED INDICATIONS NOT OTHERWISE EXCLUDED FROM PART D DOCUMENTATION OF METASTATIC COLORECTAL CANCER OR DOCUMENTATION OF LOCALLY ADVANCED, UNRESTECTABLE OR METASTATIC GASTROINTESTINAL STROMAL TUMOR (GIST). HEMATOLOGIST OR ONCOLOGIST 6 MONTHS FOR METASTATIC COLORECTAL CANCER: FAILURE ON, INTOLERANCE TO, OR CONTRAINDICATION TO THREE OF THE FOLLOWING PRIOR THERAPIES (BASED ON CLINICAL TRIAL DESIGN) - FLUOROPYRIMIDINE BASED CHEMO, OXALIPLATIN BASED CHEMO, IRINOTECAN BASED CHEMO, ANTI-VEGF THERAPY (BEVACIZUMAB) OR IF KRAS WILD TYPE AN ANTI-EGFR THERAPY (CETUXIMAB OR PANITUMUMAB). FOR GIST: FAILURE ON, INTOLERANCE TO, OR CONTRAINDICATION TO IMATINIB MESYLATE (GLEEVEC) AND SUNITINIB MALATE (SUTENT).
188 STRATTERA STRATTERA DX OF ADD/ADHD
189 SUBOXONE/SUBUTEX BUPRENORPHINE HCL BUPRENORPHINE-NALOXONE SUBOXONE DIAGNOSIS OF OPIOID ADDICTION PRESCRIBER MUST HAVE A UNIQUE IDENTIFICATION NUMBER ISSUED BY THE DRUG ENFORCEMENT AGENCY (DEA) CERTIFYING PRESCRIBING AUTHORITY FOR BUPRENORPHINE AGENTS 3 MONTHS INITIAL, 6 MONTHS CONTINUATION BUPRENORPHINE/NALOXONE MUST BE USED UNLESS THERE IS A DOCUMENTED INTOLERANCE TO, CONTRAINDICATION TO, OR THERAPEUTIC FAILURE ON BUPRENORPHINE/NALOXONE (EX. USE IN PREGNANCY). MEMBER MUST BE INITIALLY REFERRED TO AND ACTIVELY INVOLVED IN FORMAL COUNSELING WITH A LICENSED BEHAVIORIAL HEALTH PROVIDER. MUST PROVIDE NAME OF COUNSELOR AND/OR FACILITY OR RATIONALE FOR NON-PARTICIPATION. FOR RE- AUTHORIZATION, MEMBER MUST BE ADHERENT TO THERAPY AND MUST NOT BE USING OPIATES. MUST BE VERIFIED BY LAB SCREEN (DATED WITHIN 28 DAYS OF REQUEST DATE) FOR OPIATES AND BUPRENORPHINE. THE PRESENCE OF CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES OTHER THAN BUPRENORPHINE MUST BE ADDRESSED.
190 SULFONYLUREAS HRM CHLORPROPAMIDE GLYBURIDE GLYBURIDE MICRONIZED GLYBURIDE- METFORMIN HCL ONLY APPLIES TO MEMBERS 65 YEARS OF AGE AND OLDER PRIOR AUTHORIZATION APPLIES ONLY TO MEMBERS 65 YEARS OF AGE AND OLDER WHO WILL BE EVALUATED FOR APPROPRIATE USE OF HIGH RISK MEDICATION AND WILL REQUIRE FAILURE ON, INTOLERANCE TO, OR CONTRAINDICATION TO BOTH GLIMEPIRIDE AND GLIPIZIDE
191 SUTENT SUTENT ONCOLOGIST 3 MONTHS IF DIAGNOSIS IS GASTROINTESTINAL STROMAL TUMOR THERE MUST BE A FAILURE ON, CONTRAINDICATION TO, OR INTOLERANCE TO IMATINIB
192 SYLATRON SYLATRON ALL MEDICALLY ACCEPTED INDICATIONS NOT OTHERWISE EXCLUDED FROM PART D DIAGNOSIS OF MELANOMA WITH MICROSCOPIC OR GROSS NODAL INVOLVEMENT WITHIN 84 DAYS OF DEFINITIVE SURGICAL RESECTION INCLUDING COMPLETE LYMPHADENECTOMY ONCOLOGIST OR DERMATOLOGIST
193 SYLVANT SYLVANT ALL MEDICALLY ACCEPTED INDICATIONS NOT OTHERWISE EXCLUDED FROM PART D DIAGNOSIS OF MULTICENTRIC CASTLEMAN DISEASE HEMATOLOGIST OR ONCOLOGIST 6 MONTHS DOCUMENTATION THAT PATIENT IS HIV AND HHV-8 NEGATIVE AND DOCUMENTATION OF ANC GREATER THAN 1 X (10 TO THE 9TH POWER) / L AND PLATELETS GREATER THAN 75 X (10 TO THE 9TH POWER) / L AND HGB LESS THAN 17 G/DL. SUBSEQUENT APPROVAL AFTER 6 MONTHS WILL REQUIRE DOCUMENTATION OF NO DISEASE PROGRESSION AND THE FOLLOWING CRITERIA, ANC GREATER THAN 1 X (10 TO THE 9TH POWER) / L AND PLATELETS GREATER THAN 50 X (10 TO THE 9TH POWER) / L AND HGB LESS THAN 17 G/DL.
194 SYMLIN SYMLINPEN 120 SYMLINPEN 60 MEDICAL RECORD DOCUMENTATION OF USE AS AN ADJUNCT TREATMENT IN PATIENT'S WHO USE MEALTIME INSULIN THERAPY. FAILURE TO ACHIEVE DESIRED CONTROL DESPITE OPTIMAL MEALTIME INSULIN THERAPY, WHICH MAY BE WITH OR WITHOUT A CONCURRENT SULFONYLUREA AND/OR METFORMIN FOR THOSE WITH TYPE 2 DM
195 SYNAGIS SYNAGIS PROPHYAXIS OF SERIOUS LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE CAUSED BY RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL VIRUS (RSV) IN PEDIATRIC PATIENTS AT HIGH RISK, INCLUDING THOSE WITH BRONCHOPULMONARY DYSPLASIA OR COGENITAL HEART DISEASE, AND THOSE BORN PREMATURELY.
196 SYNERCID SYNERCID DIAGNOSIS OF COMPLICATED SKIN AND SKIN STRUCTURE INFECTIONS CAUSED BY STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES OR METHICILLIN-SENSITIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS. DIAGNOSIS OF CANCER-RELATED INFECTION. DIAGNOSIS OF ENDOCARDITIS CAUSED BY ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM STRAINS RESISTANT TO PENICILLIN, AMINOGLYCOSIDE, AND VANCOMYCIN. DIAGNOSIS OF MRSA FOR PATIENTS WITH PERSISTENT BACTEREMIA AND A METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS ISOLATE WITH REDUCED VANCOMYCIN AND DAPTOMYCIN SUSCEPTIBILITY. INFECTIOUS DISEASE SPECIALIST OR UPON CONSULT FROM INFECTIOUS DISEASE SPECIALIST
197 SYNRIBO SYNRIBO ALL MEDICALLY ACCEPTED INDICATIONS NOT OTHERWISE EXCLUDED FROM PART D DIAGNOSIS OF CHRONIC OR ACCELERATED PHASE CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKEMIA (CML) HEMATOLOGIST OR ONCOLOGIST 3 MONTHS FAILURE ON, INTOLERANCE TO, OR CONTRAINDICATION TO TWO OR MORE TYROSINE KINASE INHIBITORS (GLEEVEC, SPRYCEL, TASIGNA, BOSULIF)
198 SYPRINE SYPRINE DIAGNOSIS OF WILSON DISEASE MUST BE 6 YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER INTOLERANCE TO PENICILLAMINE AND ON A CONCURRENT LOW COPPER DIET
199 TAFINLAR TAFINLAR ALL MEDICALLY ACCEPTED INDICATIONS NOT OTHERWISE EXCLUDED FROM PART D DIAGNOSIS OF UNRESECTABLE OR METASTATIC MELANOMA WITH OR WITHOUT CONCOMITANT USE OF MEKINIST (TRAMETINIB). DOCUMENTATION OF BRAF V600E OR V600K MUTATION AS DETECTED BY AN FDA APPROVED TEST ONCOLOGIST OR HEMATOLOGIST OR DERMATOLOGIST 6 MONTHS NO PRIOR THERAPEUTIC FAILURE WITH A BRAF INHIBITOR THERAPY (ZELBORAF (VEMURAFENIB) OR TAFINLAR (DABRAFENIB)) OR MEK INHIBITOR THERAPY SUCH AS MEKINIST.
200 TARCEVA TARCEVA ALL MEDICALLY ACCEPTED INDICATIONS NOT OTHERWISE EXCLUDED FROM PART D DOCUMENTATION OF LOCALLY ADVANCED OR METASTATIC NON-SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER (NSCLC) WITH FAILURE OF 1 PRIOR CHEMOTHERAPY. DOCUMENTATION OF LOCALLY ADVANCED, UNRESECTABLE OR METASTASIZED PANCREATIC CANCER IN COMBO THERAPY WITH GEMCITABINE. DOCUMENTATION OF METASTATIC NSCLC WITH ONE OF THE FOLLOWING EGFR MUTATIONS AS DETECTED BY AN FDA APPROVED TEST: EXEON 19 DELETION OR EXON 21 (L858R) SUBSTITUTION. DOCUMENTATION OF USE FOR MAINTENANCE TREATMENT OF LOCALLY ADVANCED OR METASTATIC NSCLC WHOSE DISEASE HAS NOT PROGRESSED AFTER FOUR CYCLES ON A PLATINUM BASED CHEMO REGIMEN. HEMATOLOGIST OR ONCOLOGIST 6 MONTHS
201 TASIGNA TASIGNA DX OF NEW DIAGNOSED (NOT PREVIOUSLY TREATED) CHRONIC PHASE PH+ CML. DX OF CHRONIC OR ACCELERATED PHASE PH+ CML IN PATIENT'S RESISTENT TO, OR INTOLERANT TO PRIOR THERAPY INCLUDING GLEEVEC. HEMATOLOGIST OR ONCOLOGIST 3 MONTHS
202 TAZORAC TAZORAC DX OF ACNE, ACNE VULGARIS, OR ADULT ONSET ACNE FAILURE ON, INTOLERANCE TO, OR CONTRAINDICATION TO TWO FORMULARY MEDICATIONS FOR THE TREATMENT OF ACNE
203 TCA AMITRIPTYLINE HCL AMOXAPINE IMIPRAMINE HCL IMIPRAMINE PAMOATE SURMONTIL ONLY APPLIES TO MEMBERS 65 YEARS OF AGE AND OLDER PRIOR AUTHORIZATION APPLIES ONLY TO MEMBERS 65 YEARS OF AGE AND OLDER WHO WILL BE EVALUATED FOR APPROPRIATE USE OF HIGH RISK MEDICATION AND WILL REQUIRE TRIAL ON TWO FORMULARY ALTERNATIVES INCLUDING NOTRTIPTYLINE AND DESIPRAMINE
204 THIORIDAZINE HRM THIORIDAZINE HCL ONLY APPLIES TO MEMBERS 65 YEARS OF AGE AND OLDER PRIOR AUTHORIZATION APPLIES ONLY TO MEMBERS 65 YEARS OF AGE AND OLDER WHO WILL BE EVALUATED FOR APPROPRIATE USE OF HIGH RISK MEDICATION AND WILL REQUIRE FAILURE ON, INTOLERANCE TO, OR CONTRAINDICATION TO TWO FORMULARY ATYPICAL ANTIPSYCHOTICS (OLANZAPINE, RISPERIDONE, QUETIAPINE, ZIPRASIDONE, ABILIFY)
205 TOBI TOBI PODHALER DIAGNOSIS OF CYSTIC FIBROSIS PULMONOLOGIST
206 TOBRAMYCIN NEB TOBRAMYCIN DX OF CYSTIC FIBROSIS PULMONOLOGIST
207 TORISEL TORISEL ALL MEDICALLY ACCEPTED INDICATIONS NOT OTHERWISE EXCLUDED FROM PART D DX OF ADVANCED RENAL CELL CARCINOMA ONCOLOGIST
208 TRACLEER TRACLEER DOCUMENTATION OF A DIAGNOSIS OF FUNCTIONAL CLASS 2, 3, OR 4 PULMONARY ARTERIAL HYPERTENSION PULMONOLOGIST OR CARDIOLOGIST
209 TREANDA TREANDA ALL MEDICALLY ACCEPTED INDICATIONS NOT OTHERWISE EXCLUDED FROM PART D DX OF CHRONIC LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA (CLL) AS A SINGLE AGENT FOR FIRST LINE THERAPY OR AS A SINGLE AGENT WITH OR WITHOUT RITUXIMAB FOR SECOND LINE THERAPY WITH DOCUMENTATION THAT 17P DELETION HAS BEEN TESTED AS IS NOT PRESENT. DX OF NON-HODGKIN'S LYMPHOMA AS A SECOND LINE THERAPY WITH OR WITHOUT RITUXIMAB WITH DOCUMENTATION OF DISEASE PROGRESSION DURING OR WITHIN 6 MONTHS OF TREATMENT WITH RITUXIMAB OR A RITUXIMAB-CONTAINING REGIMEN. DX OF MANTLE CELL LYMPHOMA AS A SECOND LINE THERAPY WITH OR WITHOUT RITUXIMAB WITH DOCUMENTATION OF RELAPSED OR REFRACTORY MANTLE CELL LYMPHOMA. HEMATOLOGIST OR ONCOLOGIST
210 TROKENDI XR QUDEXY XR TOPIRAMATE ER TROKENDI XR ALL MEDICALLY ACCEPTED INDICATIONS NOT OTHERWISE EXCLUDED FROM PART D DOCUMENTATION OF FAILURE ON, INTOLERANCE TO, OR CONTRAINDICATION TO TWO FORMULARY ALTERNATIVES, ONE OF WHICH MUST BE TOPIRAMATE.
211 TRULICITY TRULICITY DIAGNOSIS OF TYPE 2 DIABETES MELLITUS MUST BE 18 YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER DOCUMENTATION OF A THERAPEUTIC FAILURE ON, INTOLERANCE TO, OR CONTRAINDICATION TO VICTOZA
212 TYKERB TYKERB DOCUMENTATION OF USE IN COMBINATION WITH LETROZOLE FOR THE TREATMENT OF POSTMENOPAUSAL WOMEN WITH HORMONE RECEPTOR- POSITIVE (HER2+) METASTATIC BREAST CANCER OR DOCUMENTATION OF USE IN COMBINATION WITH CAPECITABINE FOR ADVANCED OR METASTATIC BREAST CANCER WHOSE TUMORS OVEREXPRESS HER2 AND HAVE RECEIVED PRIOR THERAPY INCLUDING AN ANTHRACYCLINE, A TAXANE, AND TRASTUZUMAB (HERCEPTIN) ONCOLOGIST
213 TYSABRI TYSABRI COMBINATION THERAPY WITH IMMUNOSUPPRESSANTS (E.G. 6-MERCAPTOPURINE, AZATHIOPRINE, CYCLOSPORINE, METHOTREXATE) OR INHIBITORS OF TNF-A DX OF RELAPSING/REMITING MS OR SECONDARY PROGRESSIVE MS WITH CURRENT RELAPSE, DOCUMENTATION OF TYSABRI BEING USED AS MONOTHERAPY AND THERAPEUTIC FAILURE ON, INTOLERANCE TO, OR CONTRAINDICATION TO THERAPY WITH COPAXONE, BETASERON, OR AVONEX. DX OF CROHN'S DISEASE: 18 YEARS OF AGE AND OLDER, DIAGNOSIS OF MODERATE TO SEVERE CROHN'S AND DOCUMENTATION OF FAILURE ON, INTOLERANCE TO, OR CONTRAINDICATION TO ADEQUATE FIRST LINE THERAPY INCLUDING ONE OF THE FOLLOWING AZATHIOPRINE, CYCLOSPORINE, HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE, METHOTREXATE, SULFASALAZINE, LEFLUNOMIDE, DEPEN, RIDAURA, AND 12 WEEKS OF HUMIRA THERAPY. FOR CROHN'S DISEANSE - MUST BE 18 YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER
214 TYVASO TYVASO DIAGNOSIS OF FUNCTIONAL CLASS 3 PULMONARY ARTERY HYPERTENSION PULMONOLOGIST OR CARDIOLOGIST FAILURE ON, INTOLERANCE TO, OR CONTRAINDICATION TO TWO OF THE FOLLOWING: REVATIO, TRACLEER OR VENTAVIS
215 VALCHLOR VALCHLOR ALL MEDICALLY ACCEPTED INDICATIONS NOT OTHERWISE EXCLUDED FROM PART D DIAGNOSIS OF STAGE IA OR IB MYCOSIS FUNGOIDES-TYPE CUTANEOUS T-CELL LYMPHOMA ONCOLOGIST OR DERMATOLOGIST FAILURE ON, INTOLERANCE TO, OR CONTRAINDICATION TO ONE OF THE FOLLOWING SKIN-DIRECTED THERAPIES: TOPICAL CORTICOSTEROID, TOPICAL RETINOID, TOPICAL NITROGEN MUSTARD, OR PHOTOTHERAPY.
216 VANDETANIB CAPRELSA ALL MEDICALLY ACCEPTED INDICATIONS NOT OTHERWISE EXCLUDED FROM PART D DIAGNOSIS OF MEDULLARY THYROID CANCER IN PATIENTS WITH UNRESECTABLE, LOC ALLY ADVANCED, OR METASTATIC DISEASE.
217 VELCADE VELCADE ALL MEDICALLY ACCEPTED INDICATIONS NOT OTHERWISE EXCLUDED FROM PART D DX OF MULTIPLE MYELOMA. DX OF MANTLE CELL LYMPHOMA WITH DISEASE PROGRESSION AFTER FAILURE OF ONE PRIOR THERAPY. HEMATOLOGIST OR ONCOLOGIST 1 YEAR
218 VELPHORO VELPHORO DIAGNOSIS OF CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE REQUIRING DIALYSIS DOCUMENTATION OF THERAPEUTIC FAILURE ON, INTOLERANCE TO, OR CONTRAINDICATION TO CALCIUM ACETATE AND FOSRENOL FOR MEMBERS WHO ARE HYPOCALCEMIC OR NORMOCALCEMIC WITH NO EVIDENCE OF VASCULAR CALCIFICATION OR ADYNAMIC BONE DISEASE OR DOCUMENTATION OF THERAPEUTIC FAILURE ON, INTOLERANCE TO, OR CONTRAINDICATION TO FOSRENOL FOR MEMBERS WHO ARE HYPERCALCEMIC PATIENTS WITH SUSPECTED ADYNAMIC BONE DISEASE OR PATIENTS WITH EVIDENCE OF VASCULAR CALCIFICATION ON IMAGING
219 VEMURAFENIB ZELBORAF ALL MEDICALLY ACCEPTED INDICATIONS NOT OTHERWISE EXCLUDED FROM PART D DIAGNOSIS OF UNRESECTABLE OR METASTATIC MELANOMA WITH BRAF V600E MUTATION AS DETECTED BY AN FDA APPROVED TEST ONCOLOGIST OR DERMATOLOGIST 3 MONTHS THE FDA APPROVED TEST FOR BRAF V600E MUTATION IS THE COBAS 4800 BRAF V600 MUTATION TEST
220 VENTAVIS VENTAVIS FOR THE TREATMENT OF PRIMARY PULMONARY HYPERTENSION (WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION [WHO] GROUP I) IN PATIENTS WITH NEW YORK HEART ASSOCIATION (NYHA) CLASS III SYMPTOMS WITH AN ADEQUATE TRIAL OF TRACLEER AND REVATIO OR FOR THE TREATMENT OF PRIMARY PULMONARY HYPERTENSION (WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION [WHO] GROUP I) IN PATIENTS WITH NEW YORK HEART ASSOCIATION (NYHA) CLASS IV SYMPTOMS WITH AN ADEQUATE TRIAL OF TRACLEER. PULMONOLOGIST OR CARDIOLOGIST
221 VIEKIRA VIEKIRA PAK MEDICAL RECORD DOCUMENTATION OF A DIAGNOSIS OF HEPATITIS C INFECTION WITH IDENTIFICATION OF GENOTYPE AND SUBTYPE. DOCUMENTATION OF A DIAGNOSIS OF HEPATITIS C VIRUS (HCV) GENOTYPE 1 INFECTION OR POST-LIVER TRANSPLANT. DOCUMENTATION OF NO SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS OF DECOMPENSATED LIVER DISEASE. DOCUMENTATION OF CHILD TURCOTTE PUGH CLASS A IF THE MEMBER HAS CIRRHOSIS. DOCUMENTATION OF CONCURRENT USE WITH RIBAVIRIN FOR GENOTYPE 1A OR, AS MONOTHERAPY OR WITH RIBAVIRIN FOR GENOTYPE 1B. DOCUMENTATION OF AN FDA APPROVED MEDICATION REGIMEN THAT IS INSIDE THE PARAMETERS OF USE APPROVED BY THE FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION (FDA) OR NATIONALLY ACCEPTED TREATMENT GUIDELINES. DOCUMENTATION OF APPROPRIATE DURATION OF TREATMENT. DOCUMENTATION OF PREVIOUS TREATMENT AND TREATMENT RESPONSE. DOCUMENTATION OF APPROPRIATE WEIGHT-BASED DOSING OF RIBAVIRIN (1200 MG PER DAY IF MORE THAN 75 KG OR 1000 MG PER DAY IF LESS THAN 75 KG) IS PRESCRIBED). DOCUMENTATION OF RECEIVING THE FOLLOWING WITHIN THE PAST 3 MONTHS:HEPATIC FUNCTION PANEL, COMPLETE BLOOD COUNT INCLUDING DIFFERENTIAL, BASIC METABOLIC PANEL, AND BASELINE HCV RNA VIRAL LOAD. DOCUMENTATION THAT MEMBER DOES NOT HAVE END STAGE RENAL DISEASE REQUIRING HEMODIALYSIS. DOCUMENTATION OF A NEGATIVE PREGNANCY TEST IF MEMBER IS FEMALE OF CHILDBEARING POTENTIAL AND RECEIVING RIBAVIRIN. MUST BE 18 YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER
222 Geisinger Health Plan BOARD CERTIFIED GASTROENTEROLOGIST, HEPATOLOGIST, INFECTIOUS DISEASE SPECIALIST OR TRANSPLANT SPECIALIST 12 WKS: GENOTYPE 1A W/O CIR, GENOTYPE 1B W/ OR W/OUT CIR. 24 WKS: GENOTYPE 1A W/ CIR.
223 VIIBRYD VIIBRYD DIAGNOSIS OF MAJOR DEPRESSIVE DISORDER FAILURE ON, INTOLERANCE TO, OR CONTRAINDICATION TO AT LEAST TWO ANTIDEPRESSANT CLASSES, ONE OF WHICH IS BUPROPION.
224 VIMPAT VIMPAT DOCUMENTATION OF A DIAGNOSIS OF PARTIAL ONSET SEIZURES FAILURE ON, INTOLERANCE TO, OR CONTRAINDICATION TO TWO FORMULARY ALTERNATIVE ANTICONVULSANTS
225 VIRAZOLE VIRAZOLE TREATMENT OF HOSPITALIZED INFANTS AND YOUNG CHILDREN WITH SEVERE LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS DUE TO RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL VIRUS (RSV).
226 VOTRIENT VOTRIENT ALL MEDICALLY ACCEPTED INDICATIONS NOT OTHERWISE EXCLUDED FROM PART D DX OF ADVANCED RENAL CELL CARCINOMA WITH CLEAR CELL OR PREDOMINANTLY CLEAR CELL HISTOLOGY OR DX OF ADVANCED RENAL CELL CARCINOMA WITH NON-CLEAR CELL HISTOLOGY OR DX OF ADVANCED SOFT TISSUE SARCOMA (STS) ONCOLOGIST 6 MONTHS FOR DX OF ADVANCED RENAL CELL CARCINOMA WITH NON-CLEAR CELL HISTOLOGY MUST HAVE FAILURE ON, INTOLERANCE TO, OR CONTRAINDICATION TO TORISEL AND EITHER SUTENT OR NEXAVAR. FOR DX OF ADVANCED SOFT TISSUE SARCOMA MUST HAVE FAILURE ON, INTOLERANCE TO, OR CONTRAINDICATION TO ONE PRIOR CHEMOTHERAPY TREATMENT INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO DOXORUBICIN, IFOSFAMIDE, EPIRUBICIN, GEMCITABINE, DACARBAZINE, LIPOSOMAL DOXORUBICIN, TEMOZOLOMIDE, VINORELBINE, AD REGIMEN, AIM REGIMEN, MAID REGIMEN.
227 VPRIV VPRIV DIAGNOSIS OF TYPE 1 GAUCHER DISEASE WITH AT LEAST ONE OF THE FOLLOWING - ANEMIA, THROMBOCYTOPENIA, BONE DISEASE, HEPATOMEGALY OR SPLENOMEGALY MUST BE 4 YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER METABOLIC SPECIALIST WITH EXPERIENCE TREATING GAUCHER DISEASE DOCUMENTATION OF FAILURE ON, INTOLERANCE TO, OR CONTRAINDICATION TO ELELYSO IF PATIENT IS 18 YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER.
228 XELJANZ XELJANZ DX OF RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS MADE IN ACCORADANCE WITH THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF RHEUMATOLOGY CRITERIA FOR THE CLASSIFICATION AND DIAGNOSIS OF RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS AND DOCUMENATION OF THE NUMBER OF SWOLLEN OR TENDER JOINTS PRIOR TO INITIATING THERAPY WITH A MINIMUM DOCUMENTED JOINT COUNT OF GREATER THAN FOUR SWOLLEN OR TENDER JOINTS BASED ON A 28 JOINT COUNT OR GREATER THAN SIX SWOLLEN OR TENDER JOINTS BASED ON A JOINT COUNT MUST BE 18 YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER RHEUMATOLOGIST 6 MONTHS INITIAL AND 1 YEAR CONTINUATION FAILURE ON, INTOLERANCE TO, OR CONTRAINDICATION TO HUMIRA AND ENBREL
229 XERESE XERESE DIAGNOSIS OF COLD SORES (HERPES SIMPLEX 1 OR HERPES LABIALIS) FAILURE ON, INTOLERANCE TO, OR CONTRAINDICATION TO VALACYCLOVIR AND FAMCICLOVIR
230 XGEVA XGEVA ALL MEDICALLY ACCEPTED INDICATIONS NOT OTHERWISE EXCLUDED FROM PART D DOCUMENTATION OF BONE METASTASES RELATED TO DISEASE PROGRESSION FROM A SOLID TUMOR (E.G. BREAST, PROSTATE, THYROID). DOCUMENTATION OF TREATMENT OF ADULTS OR SKELELTALLY MATURE ADOLESCENTS WITH GIANT CELL TUMOR OF BONE THAT IS UNRESECTABLE OR WHERE SURGICAL RESECTION IS LIKELY TO RESULT IN SEVERE MORBIDITY.
231 XOLAIR XOLAIR IGE LEVEL OF GREATER THAN 30 IU AND LESS THAN 700 IU/ML, DIAGNOSIS OF MODERATE TO SEVERE PERSISTENT ASTHMA WITH EVIDENCE OR REVERSIBLE AIRWAY DISEASE, INADEQUATE CONTROL OR INTOLERANCE DESPITE 3 MONTH TRIAL OF MEDIUM TO HIGH DOSE INHALED FLOVENT OR PULMICORT, AND SEREVENT WITH MONTELUKAST, ZYFLO OR ZAFIRLUKAST, OR COMBINATION ADVAIR OR SYMBICORT AND DOCUMENTATION OF A SPECIFIC ALLERGY REACTIVITY BY POSTIVE SKIN OR BLOOD TEST FOR A SPECIFIC IGE ALLERGIST OR PULMONOLOGIST KNOWN ENVIRONMENTAL TRIGGERS HAVE BEEN ELIMINATED. REVERSIBLE AIRWAY DISEASE EVIDENCED BY GREATER THAN 12% IMPROVEMENT IN FEV1 WITH AT LEAST 200 ML INCREASE OR AT LEAST A 20% OR GREATER IMPROVEMENT IN PEF AFTER ADMINISTRATION OF ALBUTEROL.
232 XTANDI XTANDI ALL MEDICALLY ACCEPTED INDICATIONS NOT OTHERWISE EXCLUDED FROM PART D DOCUMENTATION OF METASTATIC CASTRATION-RESISTANT PROSTATE CANCER HEMATOLOGIST OR ONCOLOGIST OR UROLOGIST 6 MONTHS FAILURE ON, INTOLERANCE TO, OR CONTRAINDICATION TO DOCETAXEL AND ZYTIGA
233 ZALTRAP ZALTRAP ALL MEDICALLY ACCEPTED INDICATIONS NOT OTHERWISE EXCLUDED FROM PART D DOCUMENTATION OF METASTATIC COLORECTAL CANCER THAT IS RESISTANT TO OR HAS PROGRESSED FOLLOWING AN OXALIPLATIN CONTAINING REGIMEN AND USE IN COMBINATION WITH IRINOTECAN OR FOLFIRI (5-FLUOROURACIL, LEUCOVORIN, IRINOTECAN) HEMATOLOGIST OR ONCOLOGIST 6 MONTHS
234 ZAVESCA ZAVESCA DX OF MILD TO MODERATE TYPE 1 GAUCHER DISEASE FOR WHOM ENZYME REPLACEMENT THERAPY IS NOT A THERAPEUTIC OPTION (I.E. BECAUSE OF CONSTRAINTS SUCH AS ALLERGY, HYPERSENSITIVITY, OR POOR VENOUS ACCESS).
235 ZONTIVITY ZONTIVITY DOCUMENTATION OF MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION (MI) OCCURRING LESS THAN 12 MONTHS PRIOR TO STARTING THERAPY OR DOCUMENTATION OF PERIPHERAL ARTERIAL DISEASE (PAD) AS INDICATED BY A HISTORY OF INTERMITTENT CLAUDICATION AND RESTING ANKLE/BRACHIAL INDEX (ABI) OF LESS THAN 0.85 OR AMPUTATION, PERIPHERAL BYPASS, OR PERIPHERAL ANGIOPLASTY OF THE EXTREMITIES SECONDARY TO ISCHEMIA. FOR MI AND PAD: DOCUMENTATION OF NO PRIOR HISTORY OR STROKE, TIA, OR ICH AND DOCUMENTATION OF CONCOMITANT THERAPY WITH ASPIRIN ALONE, A THIENOPYRIDINE (CLOPIDOGREL) ALONE, OR A COMBINATION OF ASPIRIN AND CLOPIDOGREL.
236 ZORBTIVE ZORBTIVE DOCUMENTATION OF ACUTE ILLNESS DUE TO COMPLICATIONS FROM OPEN HEART OR ABDOMINAL SURGERY, MULTIPLE ACCIDENT TRAUMA, OR ACUTE RESPIRATORY FAILURE. DOCUMENTATION OF CURRENT, DAILY THERAPIES WITH PARENTERAL NUTRITION (TPN OR PPN) AND/OR ENTERAL NUTRITION SUPPORT. ENDOCRINOLOGIST OR GASTROENTEROLOGIST 2 MONTHS
237 ZORTRESS ZORTRESS DOCUMENTED KIDNEY TRANSPLANT NOT COVERED BY MEDICARE OR DOCUMENTED LIVER TRANSPLANT NOT COVERED BY MEDICARE MUST BE 18 YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER PHYSICIAN EXPERIENCED IN IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE THERAPY AND MANAGEMENT OF TRANSPLANT PATIENTS FOR KIDNEY TRANSPLANT: ZORTRESS BEING ADMINISTERED IN COMBINATION WITH BASILIXIMAB (SIMULECT) INDUCTION AND CONCURRENTLY WITH REDUCED DOSES OF CYCLOSPORINE AND CORTICOSTEROIDS. FOR LIVER TRANSPLANT: ZORTRESS BEING ADMINISTERED NO EARLIER THAN 30 DAYS POST TRANSPLANT WITH LOW DOSE TACROLIMUS AND CORTICOSTEROIDS.
238 ZYDELIG ZYDELIG ALL MEDICALLY ACCEPTED INDICATIONS NOT OTHERWISE EXCLUDED FROM PART D DIAGNOSIS OF RELAPSED CHRONIC LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA (CLL), RELAPSED FOLLICULAR B-CELL NON-HODGKIN LYMPHOMA (FL), OR RELPASED SMALL LYMPHOCYTIC LYMPHOMA (SLL) MUST BE 18 YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER ONCOLOGIST OR HEMATOLOGIST 6 MONTHS FOR CLL - DOCUMENTATION OF CONCURRENT USE WITH RITUXIMAB. FOR FL OR SLL - DOCUMENTATION OF FAILURE ON, INTOLERANCE TO, OR CONTRAINDICATION TO AT LEAST TWO PRIOR THERAPIES INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO (FOR FL: BENDAMUSTINE + RITUXIMAB, RCHOP, RCVP, RITUXIMAB, FCMR, FLUDARABINE + RITUXIMAB, OR RFND) (FOR SLL: OBINUTUZUMAB + CHLORAMBUCIL, RITUXIMAB + CHLORAMBUCIL, BENDAMUSTINE +/- RITUXIMAB, RITUXIMAB, CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE + PREDNISONE +/ RITUXIMAB, CHLORAMBUCIL)
239 ZYKADIA ZYKADIA ALL MEDICALLY ACCEPTED INDICATIONS NOT OTHERWISE EXCLUDED FROM PART D DOCUMENTATION OF LOCALLY ADVANCED OR METASTATIC NON-SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER (NSCLC) THAT IS ANAPLASTIC LYMPHOMA KINASE (ALK) POSITIVE AS DETECTED BY AN FDA APPROVED TEST ONCOLOGIST 6 MONTHS FAILURE ON, INTOLERANCE TO, OR CONTRAINDICATION TO XALKORI
240 ZYPREXA RELPREVV ZYPREXA RELPREVV DIAGNOSIS OF SCHIZOPHRENIA MUST BE 18 YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER DOCUMENTED HISTORY OF POOR ADHERENCE TO ORAL MEDICATIONS AND DOCUMENTATION THAT PATIENT EDUCATION TO IMPROVE ADHERENCE HAS BEEN ATTEMPTED. FAILURE ON, INTOLERANCE TO, OR CONTRAINDICATION TO RISPERDAL CONSTA.
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