Patient Services, Inc. to Support Patients’ Access to Treatments Act
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This legislation is critical because patients with rare, chronic conditions, like those that PSI serves, are increasingly facing out-of-pocket expenses that are so unaffordable they sometimes forgo taking their medication altogether causing their condition to worsen and increase costs to the medical system.
An alarming trend in today's health insurance market is the practice of moving more expensive drugs onto specialty tiers that utilize high patient cost-sharing methods. The patient costs for drugs in specialty tiers can reach into the thousands of dollars a month, placing medically-necessary treatments out of reach of average insured Americans. For many patients, this leads to failure to adhere to a treatment plan, which can lead to worsening disease, increased rates of disability, and rising health care costs.
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PSI is one of 32 members of the
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