Jayne Hornung: Payers Need More Education on Prescription Digital Therapeutics

Many payers are not familiar with digital therapeutics, indicating the need for better education among payers, said Jayne Hornung, chief clinical officer, pharmacy, MMIT.

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What sorts of education efforts with payers need to be made as more prescription digital therapeutics enter the market?

The Digital Therapeutics Alliance is an organization that their main focus is to educate payers on digital therapeutics, and that has to happen broadly, nationally across all payers. We learned during our survey of payers that many of them were not familiar at all with these digital therapeutics—the names did not ring a bell at all. So, the more we can educate payers on these therapeutics and how they can help the patients, that's what we need to do.