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Step Therapy Step Therapy is a strategy that insurance companies use to make patients try and “fail” a cheaper medication before the health plan will cover the medicine their doctor prescribed. This insurance tactic, also known as “Fail First,” is harmful to patient health and safety. Imagine you are a vegetarian and order a delicious […]

Change is like waves Change can be beautiful, clear, and peaceful It can be choppy and cloudy It can be chaotic and gloomy It can be hostile and dangerous too Change can be big, it can be small It can be scary and intimating   Regardless of what comes our way, We must face it […]

Pharmacy Benefit Managers, or PBMs, are third party entities that contract the management of pharmacy benefits for government programs and employer-sponsored health plans. PBMs develop and maintain drug formularies, contract with pharmacies, negotiate rebates and contracts with manufacturers and oversee the processing and payment of pharmacy benefit claims. Recently, many healthcare professionals and advocates have […]

Living with invisible disease often has consequences that can be embarrassing to talk about. In advocacy, even when legislation is passed, it is often simply a first step. Social acceptance and awareness can be a separate movement all together. For patients with Crohn’s Disease or other digestive disorders, access to a restroom is a human […]

By, Haley Duff I know you want to help. I hope you want to help. I can see it in your eyes, “she’s back”. You’re sorry you don’t know how to fix my broken. You let me confide though into the 10 minutes that I am allotted… 10 minutes? To explain to you the tens […]

by Erin Mitchell   pain looks different than I thought it would it changes shapes fitting in to the narrowest of groves sliding into the nooks not yet discovered   hope too looks different coming in undulations and waning just the same   this body though is the most surprising of all a work horse […]

An integral piece of the Infusion Access Foundation mission is building out an advocacy platform where patients can utilize their voice to effect lasting change as we work toward treatment access for chronic disease patients. From affordability to eligibility, the fight for patient access is ongoing and ever changing. As we close out the end […]

from spot on the brain to chronic pain there was no way I was ready for these life changes but through a lot of prayer and a bit of hope it made it easier for me to cope cause never been the one to take life as a joke that’s why MS won’t drive me […]

it’s hard trust me, i know especially the beginning you were going about your daily life and you were striving to become all that you have wanted to become the future was looking bright and finally working in your favor you were thriving then suddenly the whole world comes crashing down like you were high […]

Austin, TX. October 26, 2021. In a bright sunlit atrium, on an unusually breezy day, the winds of change blew through a group of individuals just yesterday were strangers. Traveling across the country, these patient advocates entrust their stories with the Infusion Access Foundation (IAF) team as they share their journey of strength, spirit, chronic […]