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Drug Assistance Programs Offer Little Charity to Uninsured

Lisa Rapaport  |  

(Reuters Health)—Many patients who receive assistance from charities set up to defray prescription drugs costs may already have insurance that covers most the cost for their medications, a U.S. study suggests. Researchers examined data on the six largest independent charities offering patient assistance programs through 274 different disease-specific programs. These programs had total revenue ranging…

Samsung Bioepis Humira Biosimilar Wins FDA Approval

Aakash Jagadeesh Babu and Bernard Orr  |  

(Reuters)—The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Samsung Bioepis Co. Ltd.’s biosimilar to AbbVie Inc.’s blockbuster rheumatoid arthritis treatment Humira, the health agency said on Tuesday. The drug, Hadlima, was developed by South Korea’s Samsung Bioepis and comes with a boxed warning, the FDA’s harshest. The agency flagged increased risk of serious infections, including tuberculosis…

Making Sense of Drug Pricing Legislation

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A number of bills have been introduced in the 116th Congress to mitigate the impact of treatment and drug costs on U.S. patients. The ACR has reviewed the bills and supports those that most closely align with its positions on access to care.