Advocacy Insights: Non-Medical Switching with Greg Hansch

Advocacy Insights: Non-Medical Switching with Greg Hansch

Q. “Non-medical switching” is an unfamiliar term to many. How do you explain it?

The term “non-medical switching” can be confusing, but everyone knows someone with a chronic health condition. So I frame it in those terms. I explain that the goal is to protect patients’ access to medications that keep them stable, that it’s senseless to take away a treatment that’s working. People seem to understand that intuitively

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Protecting Patients From Non-Medical Switching

Protecting Patients From Non-Medical Switching

Patients with chronic and complex diseases often require medication so they can do their jobs, care for their families and participate in their communities. But increasingly, cost-focused insurers are forcing patients to abandon proven treatments for cheaper alternatives, what’s known as “non-medical switching”.

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