Health care costs in the United States continue to rise, placing greater financial pressure on health care purchasers and consumers. According to the KFF’s 2024 Employer Health Benefits Survey, ...

As health insurance companies push back against co-pay assistance programs, patients are left to navigate the complex world of prescription medication costs.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

— Commercially-insured patients can pay as little as $0 on their copay and up to $2,000 per fill for their PANCREAZE ® prescription CAMPBELL, Calif., Feb. 11, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- VIVUS LLC, a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Commercially-insured patients can pay as little as $0 on their copay and up to $2,000 per fill for their PANCREAZE® prescription CAMPBELL, Calif., Feb. 11, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- VIVUS LLC, a ...