As someone living with a rare disease in Ohio, I know how fragile access to life-saving treatment can be. A bill to help patients with rare or life-threatening illnesses is currently being debated in ...

Copay maximizers allow plans to “maximize” the value extracted from copay assistance programs by adjusting a patient’s cost-sharing to the maximum amount of available assistance and not allowing the ...

Co-pay accumulators and maximizers are 2 programs that insurers have started implementing to help them redirect financial assistance from the patient, said Kimberly Westrich, MA, chief strategy ...

A funding shortfall for a key copay assistance program to help make eye injections more affordable for low-income patients has caused widespread disruption in treatment, researchers have found. The ...

MEDICINE CAN REACH TENS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS. ACTION NEWS INVESTIGATES HAS LEARNED. EVEN WHEN PATIENTS GET HELP PAYING THOSE BILLS, THEY CAN BE STUCK WITH A STEEP DEDUCTIBLE. INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER ...

CINCINNATI, Aug. 10, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Blue Water Biotech, Inc. (“Blue Water” or the “Company”), a biotechnology and pharmaceutical company spanning multiple sectors, today announced the ...

When Gury Doshi, MD, learned that a patient’s insurance didn’t cover her breast cancer medication, Doshi had a potential workaround. The patient could try to bypass the insurer and access the drug at ...

Johnson & Johnson has sued divisions of health insurer Cigna, accusing them of working with a drug-benefit middleman to drain J&J financial-assistance funds earmarked for patients taking some of its ...

Life is a challenge, but chronic health conditions can make daily living seem insurmountable. Diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, asthma and inflammatory bowel disease often mean fatigue, recurring ...

Teva Pharmaceuticals, the largest generic drug manufacturer in the United States, has agreed to pay $450 million to resolve allegations of violating the False Claims Act and Anti-Kickback Statute ...

These examples are responses to increasing financial demands shifting to U.S. consumers for their healthcare, including prescription medications. These shifts are, in part, the result of increases in ...