PAN’s State of Patient Access report featured by Informa’s Access Insider
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Informa Connect’s news site Access Insider interviewed Amy Niles, chief mission officer of the PAN Foundation, about the 2025 State of Patient Access report, barriers to healthcare access, advocacy, and the need for action.
In the interview with Access Insider, Niles discussed the five dimensions of the report scorecard, as evaluated by patients in a national poll: access to care, relationship with healthcare providers, access to treatment through healthcare plans, affordability of medications, and financial toxicity. Niles also mentioned alternative funding providers, programs on the rise among employer-sponsored health plans as a cost-cutting measure which target specialty medications for rare and chronic conditions.
The PAN Foundation’s recent grassroots advocacy campaign was also discussed in the interview. The potential for Medicaid cuts and cuts to research and federal agency staffing put healthcare at risk for millions of Americans. “If there are cuts,” Niles said, “millions of people, and their access to care will potentially be impacted.”