Financial Eligibility Criteria and Medication Coverage for Independent Charity Patient Assistance Programs.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Although independent charity patient assistance programs improve patient access to costly prescription drugs, recent federal investigations have raised questions about their potential to increase pharmaceutical spending and to violate the federal Anti-Kickback Statute. Little is known about the design of the programs, patient eligibility, or drug coverage.

Objective

To examine the eligibility criteria of the independent charity patient assistance programs and the drugs covered by them.

Design, setting, and participants

Descriptive cross-sectional study of the 6 largest independent charities offering patient assistance programs for patients including, but not limited to, Medicare beneficiaries in 2018. These charities offered 274 different disease-specific p

SUBMITTER: Kang SY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6686767 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature