Opinion: Copay assistance should count as part of patients’ cost sharing for medications
The Biden administration has made health equity a priority and it has been a constant theme of conversation on Capitol Hill. But where do we go from here? One place is stopping health insurance companies and pharmacy benefit managers from pulling the rug out from underneath people who need help affording their medications through copay assistance.
Over the past few years, health plans and PBMs have changed the rules on how they count copay assistance programs, padding their own profits and putting patients who rely on help affording their medications in an untenable situation.
