Dozens of tech companies are pushing their remote monitoring service to primary care doctors as a way to keep tabs on patients with chronic illnesses and free up appointment time.
Insurers or employers can tap into funds provided to patients by drugmakers through copay assistance programs, which were designed by the companies to help patients afford increasingly expensive medications.
Patients with narcolepsy face a dual nightmare of medication shortages and stigma
Each month is accompanied by familiar anxieties as patients navigate a web of messy logistics and uncertainty while trying to get the medication they need to live normally.
District judge reiterates decision limiting copay accumulators
The copay accumulator case took yet another turn last week, with plaintiffs filing an appeal and a brief arguing that the government must enforce a recent court ruling.
Most patients favor in-person appointments for everything but mental health
Profemur artificial hips were once considered innovative for a feature known as a “dual modular neck,” intended to modernize total hip replacement surgery.