Sentence examples for patient assistance programs from inspiring English sources

But he said the big drug companies had discussed harmonizing patient assistance programs.

Drug companies commonly work with insurers and patient assistance programs to lower the patient's out-of-pocket costs.

She told them they might qualify for help from the drug makers, which run patient assistance programs for people who cannot afford their medicine.

He noted that the company is committed to preserving access to drugs as well, using patient assistance programs to alleviate the cost.

She said Valeant's patient assistance programs have recently been improved to ensure that privately insured patients only pay about $5 a month.

Although the requirement doesn't affect for-profit hospitals, many do have patient assistance programs that can help patients strapped for funds, he said.

Patient-assistance programs have been used to justify exorbitant price hikes, while undercutting the political case for pricing regulation.

Patient-assistance programs like Kaleo's have historically been used to justify exorbitant price hikes, while undercutting the political case for pricing regulation.

GlaxoSmithKline and Schering-Plough said then that their patient-assistance programs for low-income people would help provide the drug to those who could not afford it.

"The patient-assistance programs are ways to charge much higher prices to people in insured populations," Geoffrey Joyce, a health economist at the University of Southern California, said.

At the hearing on Wednesday, several lawmakers said that the actions Mylan had taken so far were not good enough and that measures like expanding discount cards and patient-assistance programs — which are tied to a family's income — did not go far enough.