Patients across Maryland, particularly those living with chronic and complex conditions, rely on regular treatments and medications to manage their symptoms, stay healthy, and live fulfilling lives. However, high costs at the pharmacy counter, harmful insurance practices, and other barriers to care are putting critical treatments out of reach for patients.
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Many Maryland patients rely on financial copay assistance to afford critical treatment. However, health insurance companies are increasingly implementing harmful policies called copay accumulator programs, which block any copay assistance from counting toward a patient's annual deductible or out-of-pocket maximum. For many Maryland patients who rely on high-cost treatments, financial assistance is the only way to afford the out-of-pocket costs needed to stay healthy.
Send a message to your Maryland legislators today and urge them to alleviate health care affordability challenges for Maryland patients.
To whom it may concern:
As your constituent, I urge you to support policies that will lower out-of-pocket health care costs for Maryland patients by reforming burdensome insurance barriers that block access to care.
Many patients across Maryland, particularly those living with chronic or complex conditions, rely on copay assistance to afford critical treatments. Yet, insurance companies are increasingly implementing harmful copay accumulator programs that block any financial copay assistance from counting toward a patient's annual deductible or out-of-pocket maximum.
Copay accumulator programs are leading to increased costs at the pharmacy counter for Maryland residents. Over 99% of copay assistance programs are used for conditions with no generic treatment equivalent. Without action from lawmakers, patients in Maryland will continue to lose out on the treatments they need to live healthy and fulfilling lives.
Please protect patients by ensuring all copay assistance counts towards a patient's deductible or out-of-pocket maximum. Patients across Maryland are counting on you to address unnecessary barriers to health care.
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