August 1, 2017
Non-medical switching occurs when health plans drive stable patients to switch from their current medication to a less expensive alternative.…
April 10, 2017
Physicians and patients are no longer asking if a biological medicine is the best choice, but – more likely – which biological medicine is the best choice. This opening thought from Alliance for Patient Access Chairman David Charles, MD, set the tone for the organization’s second annual National Policy and Advocacy Summit on Biologics and Biosimilars, held Thursday in Washington, DC.
February 17, 2017
Access to medication has become an all-too-common challenge for patients with one of the country’s most common diseases: diabetes.
December 16, 2016
Hepatitis C patients keep waiting…and waiting…and waiting.
December 6, 2016
Polling results from Tennessee cast new light on a trend that’s sparking national concerns: non-medical switching.
October 27, 2016
Millions of Americans and their families struggle every day with the devastating effects of Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and Huntington’s diseases.
October 23, 2016
What happens when patients’ medications are switched for financial reasons instead of medical reasons? Does it affect their health? Their…
October 12, 2016
Preliminary data from the Institute for Patient Access suggest what opponents of non-medical switching have long suspected: having medications switched for financial reasons could be bad news for patients with chronic diseases.
October 1, 2016
Millions of Americans and their families deal with the debilitating effects of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and Huntington’s.…
September 23, 2016
Under prevailing benefit designs in both public and private health insurance systems, patients may find that pivotal decisions about their…
