In early 2019, Jennifer Hepworth and her husband were stunned by a large bill they unexpectedly received for their daughter’s prescription cystic fibrosis medication. Their payment had risen to $3,500 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A recent legal battle over copay assistance programs for biologic medications, and whether they must count ...

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 ...

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 ...

60% of patients say they couldn’t afford their meds without copay assistance Nearly half of patients and caregivers say they or someone in their immediate household has not been able to afford their ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ohio lawmakers have a chance to protect patients from harmful and discriminatory insurance practices by passing Senate Bill 207, a ...

A concerning program by Eli Lilly ties increased copay assistance for one of its top-selling brand-name drugs, tirzepatide (Zepbound), to having a prescription for another, ixekizumab (Taltz). Called ...

Two key pillars of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) are its creation of essential health benefits (EHBs) and its imposition of annual limits on cost sharing. The ACA’s annual limits on cost sharing were ...

As healthcare costs continue to rise, everyone feels the pinch, whether its premiums eating into paychecks or copays at the pharmacy counter. But for those of us living with chronic illnesses like ...

Change is unlikely to come soon. Insurers and employers have long complained that copay assistance programs are mainly a marketing ploy by the drug industry that encourages patients to stay on costly ...

Kelly Chellis is Ohio Volunteer Advocacy Committee chair of the Arthritis Foundation of Ohio. Ohio lawmakers have a chance to protect patients from harmful and discriminatory insurance practices by ...