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Pharmaceutical Commerce: Alternative funding programs threaten patient access

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A national poll by the PAN Foundation’s Center for Patient Research, and a primer about how alternative funding programs work, was featured in Pharmaceutical Commerce. The PAN study revealed that more than half of insured adults with commercial insurance have been told by their health insurance plan that medications for their chronic or rare disease were no longer covered.

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