Oncologist Describes How Pharmaceutical Regulations Created Delays that Cost Her Patients a Life

TRANG: “The son and daughter of one of our patients accompanied me to the Hill during one of my first visits to your office, where we discussed how their mother experienced a 35-day delay and passed away before being able to try her physician-prescribed medication. We had that medication in our pharmacy, but we were not allowed to dispense it because her plan's PBM required use of their internal specialty pharmacy, but the insurer would not authorize it. We will never know would -- if that drug would have helped her cancer, but what it certainly did was delay that patient in her family of hope. And delays in cancer treatment are not harmless. They impact families, they impact patients, and they impact survival.”

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Oncologist Describes How Pharmaceutical Regulations Created Delays that Cost Her Patients a Life‘The three largest PBMs control access to 80% of the prescriptions in the United States’News & Politics,Health & FitnessEXCERPT:TRANG: “The son and daughter of one of our patients accompanied me to the Hill during one of my first visits to your office, where we discussed how their mother experienced a 35-day delay and passed away before being able to try her physician-prescribed medication. We had that medication in our pharmacy, but we were not allowed to dispense it because her plan's PBM required use of their internal specialty pharmacy, but the insurer would not authorize it. We will never know would -- if that drug would have helped her cancer, but what it certainly did was delay that patient in her family of hope. And delays in cancer treatment are not harmless. They impact families, they impact patients, and they impact survival.”Video filesFullCompactSort byDateSummaryRelevancePopularityPer page81216Audio filesFullCompactSort byDateSummaryRelevancePopularityPer page81216Recipient e-mailMessage (optional)Preview

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