On this Ropes & Gray podcast, health care partner Michael Lampert and counsel Sam Perrone, and litigation & enforcement partner Andrew O’Connor, rejoin to discuss patient assistance programs, recent ...

Anna Sutton was shocked when she received a letter from her husband’s job-based health plan stating that Humira, an expensive drug used to treat her daughter’s juvenile arthritis, was now on a long ...

Atlas Health taps into financial assistance programs for patients to help hospitals get paid. AI connects the money, patients and health systems. At any given time, there are more than 20,000 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The programs are designed to provide anti-VEGF treatment for patients who are uninsured or underinsured.

Copayment accumulators and maximizers have the potential to harm patients’ access to necessary medicines. Health care payers (including employers, insurers, and pharmacy benefit managers), regulators, ...

Why do pharmaceutical companies charge exorbitant rates for their products but then give them away for free or virtually no cost to most patients, regardless of income, through patient assistance ...

Specialty pharmacy workflows must account for longer, more complex affordability calls, with copay-shock interactions ...

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The Patient Advocate Foundation and the Patient Access Network Foundation merged March 3, creating the nation’s largest portfolio of financial assistance programs for low- and middle-income patients.

Limited evidence from a literature review suggests that co-pay assistance was associated with improved treatment persistence/adherence across various diseases, with indirect evidence suggesting ...

Receipt of FA significantly lowered annual OOP spending but did not significantly reduce the likelihood of catastrophic spending. Non-White patients and those who spoke English as a second language ...

Health insurance can be a helpful—often vital—resource for you as you live with lupus. But figuring out how to use your benefits to the fullest can be tough, even if you’ve lived with this chronic ...