Patient Perspective: Copay Accumulators Create Yet Another Cost Burden Faced by US Patients in Treatment with Targeted Therapies - ILCN.org (ILCN/WCLC)

Patient Perspective: Copay Accumulators Create Yet Another Cost Burden Faced by US Patients in Treatment with Targeted Therapies - ILCN.org (ILCN/WCLC)

Adding to the Kafkaesque financial toxicities that can accompany long-term treatment—I’m required by the internationally recognized rules of patient engagement to invoke an allusion to Kafka—is an insurance scheme that is short on transparency, shifts the burden of cost to the patient, and which has become a widespread practice in the United States: copay accumulators and maximizers. Annabelle Gurwitch As Monica Bryant, COO of Triage Cancer put…