/SPOTLIGHT: Insurers hike co-pays for expensive meds
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SPOTLIGHT: Insurers hike co-pays for expensive meds

FiercePharma
2008/04/14

Health insurers are passing on the high cost of some meds to patients, asking them to pay up to one-third the price of expensive drugs; the policies affect drugs for such serious illnesses as cancer, multiple sclerosis, and rheumatoid arthritis, and they apply even to meds without cheaper equivalents. Report

Summary

Health insurers are passing on the high cost of some meds to patients, asking them to pay up to one-third the price of expensive drugs; the policies affect drugs for such serious illnesses as