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How Life Science Organizations Can Optimize Patient Support Program Delivery
The crucial role of patient support programs With patients across the country and across the financial spectrum struggling to afford treatment, ensuring all eligible patients are enrolled in the patient support programs they qualify for is critical—and often challenging. “I’d estimate that 50% to 75% of our patients struggle to afford treatment,” says Beth Huneycutt, a Revenue …
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Leveraging Technology to Advance Health Equity
Health equity and why it matters A 2022 report from Accenture and HIMSS Market Insights reveals that 93% of US healthcare executives believe in the importance of initiatives that promote health equity,1 or making sure everyone gets the high-quality care they deserve according to their specific needs. But despite widespread support for the idea of health …
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How AssistPoint® Is Empowering Healthcare Provider Organizations to Ensure Every Patient Is Worked Up for Financial Assistance
The power of a proactive approach A phone call can be life-changing. A patient at Verdi Oncology—a single mother who’d recently been diagnosed with advanced cancer—was about to sit down with her college-bound daughter to break the devastating news that her college fund would have to be used instead to pay for expensive cancer medications. That’s when …
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How Annexus Health Is Championing Health Equity Through Financial Assistance and Patient Access Services
Health equity and why it matters Should a person’s circumstances in life determine how deserving they are of medical care? The answer in my heart—and, I imagine, most hearts—is no. From the physician’s office to the pharmaceutical manufacturer and everywhere in between, when we see a person facing a life-changing diagnosis, we want them to get the …
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AssistPoint® Helps Provider Organizations Go the Extra Mile for Patients in Financial Need
Ask Jessie (Kendrick) Olive what her role at Central Georgia Cancer Care is and she’ll tell you her name tag reads, “Patient Assistance Coordinator and Patient Account Representative Team Lead.” But if you ask the patients she’s helped or the people she works with, the word “Super” should probably be on there somewhere. That’s because …
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Provider Perspective: Making Patient Access Services More Accessible
<?php wp_title(‘‹’, true, ‘right’); ?> For many American patients, financial assistance can make the difference between getting the medication they need and not getting it. In a 2019 poll, 29% of adults reported not taking their medicines as prescribed because of the cost; of those, 30% say their condition got worse as a result.1 But while many …
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Easing the Burden Around Securing Patient Assistance
Unscripted With Brian Ansay In this installment, Brian Ansay, President, Specialty Physician GPOs, connects with Joe Baffone, Co-Founder and CEO of Annexus Health, for a conversation on easing the burden around securing patient assistance and financial relief and how that impacts a patient’s ability to get on and stay on the appropriate therapy. ION Solutions continually seeks …
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Financial Toxicity: For Cancer Survivors, It’s Personal
When I woke up one morning at the age of 27 to find that I had lost my voice, a cancer diagnosis was the last thing I expected. Another thing I didn’t fully expect: the bills that came with it…and keep on coming. Prior to becoming a cancer patient, I had no idea how expensive …
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Improving Access to Life Science Patient Support Programs at the Provider Level
Breakthrough treatments in hematology and oncology have the potential to cure, and to extend the lives of many patients with cancer—but only those who can afford them. As cancer care improves, the price tags associated with these treatments continue to rise. Today, prices higher than $10,000 per month for cancer treatments are common. Even with …