About one in 10 prescription drugs—mainly brand-name and expensive drugs and those for rare diseases—has a manufacturer-sponsored patient support program, which usually includes financial, nursing and ...

Greater transparency and independent evaluation are needed to understand the impact of the patient support programs that pharmaceutical companies offer for many expensive drugs, according to ...

The Eliquis 360 Support program offers a 40% discount on apixaban, targeting uninsured or underinsured patients to improve access and affordability. Apixaban is the most prescribed oral anticoagulant ...

Jeffrey Stark, MD, vice president and head of medical immunology at UCB, analyzes the Bimzelx Navigate program, a comprehensive support system developed to empower patients prescribed bimekizumab-bkzx ...

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 ...

Pharmaceutical companies are undergoing a profound transformation. No longer confined to merely developing treatments, companies are assuming a partnership role to collaborate with healthcare ...

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 ...

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 ...

The vast majority of drugmakers are either considering or have already established direct-to-patient (DTP) programs, cutting out middlemen to offer services like virtual care consultations, payment ...

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 ...

Judy Summer has been creating art since 1967’s Summer of Love. And ever since she moved her young family from the wilds of Topanga Canyon, near Los Angeles, to Park City, Utah, in the 1970s, she and ...

Four years ago, Barbara LaCoste began seeing blurry spots in her central line of vision. During an eye exam at the John A. Moran Eye Center, the 78-year-old received a diagnosis that was all too ...