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 ...

Copay diversion policies are a quiet but devastating tactic punishing patients for using assistance programs designed to help ...

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 ...

Starting in 2026, people who are insured through Medicare will pay no more than $2,100 out of pocket on prescription drugs ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The cost of cancer care is escalating dramatically, in part because of the rising expense of systemic cancer therapy. This creates financial dilemmas for patients and insurers and potential economic ...

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 ...