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Limits to anti-nausea pill coverage wear on cancer patients and doctors

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Pharmacy benefit managers say limits guard against overuse and offer workarounds to get more tablets.

Ondansetron, known by the brand-name Zofran , is a relatively cheap anti-nausea pill.

Doctors say restrictions on the number of tablets patients receive can hurt care.

Thirty tablets of the drug can cost under $12 through prescription discount websites.

If patients run out of ondansetron, even for a few days , uncontrolled vomiting can send them to emergency rooms or force a treatment pause, doctors say.

Limits can hurt patients who have big copayments for each refill or trouble getting to the drugstore.

Murphy , the cancer patient, has avoided all of that.

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