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Many Ohioans lack access to prescription medications because insurers and pharmacy benefit managers are increasingly making it more difficult for patients to afford them. High-deductible health plans, copayments, coinsurance, copay accumulators, restrictive formularies, etc. are all tactics used to simply push more of the cost-share onto the patient.
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WSYX) — Shawna Landaker was worried about her husband, Doug. The high-school sweethearts were happily settled with their two children in a bucolic new home on her family’s old farm near Waterford, about 20 miles up the Muskingum River from Marietta.
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WSYX) — You’ve probably heard it in those pervasive TV ads for expensive prescription drugs: If you need financial help, we can provide it. But in the second part of the ABC 6 On Your Side web series on hidden reasons for high drug costs, we’ll show you why you may never see…
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WSYX) — When a bill designed to cut drug prices for many Ohioans won unanimous approval in the House last year, the bipartisan measure with 60 co-sponsors seemed a good bet to become law. But House Bill 135 didn’t even get a hearing in the Senate until nearly eight months later. It quietly…