Sign Your Name Now: Help Oregon Patients and Reduce Barriers to Healthcare

In Oregon, many patients are facing the impossible choice of deciding between paying for groceries or affording lifesaving prescriptions.

For patients with complex diseases, innovative treatments, including provider-administered therapy, can help them live healthy, productive lives. However, high costs, harmful insurance practices, and other barriers are keeping many from getting the care they need. For example, some health insurance companies have recently made it harder to access treatments by enacting new programs that prevent patients from counting financial assistance toward their annual out-of-pocket maximum, leaving many patients with unbearably high medical bills and putting some treatments out of reach completely.

Join the Infusion Access Foundation today to reduce barriers to healthcare and help Oregonians access lifesaving treatment and medicines.
Dear [Legislator Name],

Across the state of Oregon, high out-of-pocket costs and other insurance barriers are negatively impacting patient access to prescription medication and the care they need to live full, healthy lives. Many Oregon residents rely on financial assistance to afford their health care, but health insurance companies are increasingly implementing copay accumulator adjustment programs – new harmful policies that prevent patients from counting financial assistance received from other sources toward their annual out-of-pocket maximum, leaving patients with unbearably high medical bills and unable to afford their care.

Imagine if your bank accepted payments on your mortgage from your own pocketbook and from the money you borrowed from a family member, but only applied the money from your pocketbook towards the bank note. Similar to a mortgage payment, health insurance companies should apply any payment made by or on behalf of a patient toward a patient's deductible or out-of-pocket maximum. Insurance companies are double dipping by implementing copay accumulator programs in that they are being paid twice: once from copay cards and then again by patients – ultimately harming patients and reducing access to treatments.

If patients are unable to access financial assistance, an otherwise stable patient might be forced to end their doctor-prescribed treatment due to cost. This leads to worse health outcomes and harms patients.

As your constituent, I urge you to support policies that prioritize the needs of patients and protect their access to life-saving medications and care. Health insurance companies must apply any payment towards a patient's cost sharing requirement.

Thank you,

[Constituent Name]
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