Health Affairs

Drug Company–Sponsored Patient Assistance Programs: A Viable Safety Net?

Drug company–sponsored patient assistance programs (PAPs) provide access to brand-name medications at little or no cost and have been advocated as a safety net for inadequately insured patients. Yet ...
The American Journal of Managed Care

How Specialty Pharmacies Navigate Charitable Patient Assistance Programs

Specialty pharmacy workflows must account for longer, more complex affordability calls, with co-pay-shock interactions averaging ~12 minutes and requiring rapid benefit-type stratification.
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Copay assistance is meant to defray patient drug costs. Some insurers keep it instead.

For 16 years, Larry Gruber, a fitness coach from Wilton Manors, Florida, received a coupon card to help him pay for a psoriatic arthritis medication he needs that costs more than $7,700 a month. Each ...
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What to know about the AIDS Drug Assistance Program bill DeSantis signed

TALLAHASSEE — Florida’s HIV-positive patients will continue to be able to rely on the state for help getting medication for the next few months, thanks to a last-minute scramble from the Florida ...
The Columbian

States are limiting HIV drug assistance programs

Thousands of low-income people living with HIV could be losing drug coverage as states impose limitations on HIV assistance programs amid constrained budgets — raising alarms over consistent access to ...
U.S. News & World Report

Copay Assistance Is Meant To Defray Patient Drug Costs. Some Insurers Keep It Instead.

Copay Assistance Is Meant To Defray Patient Drug Costs. Some Insurers Keep It Instead. By Daniel Chang and KFF Health News HealthDay ReportersWEDNESDAY, July 8, 2026 (HealthDay News) — For 16 years, ...