A new mandate requires insurers to cover PrEP HIV prevention drugs by 2025

A national health task force’s sterling new endorsement of a long-acting injectable medication for use as HIV prevention will require health insurers to begin covering the pricey drug by 2025. Such expanded access to the preventive therapy could lend a much-needed boost to the country’s relatively anemic efforts to thwart the HIV epidemic. However, the… Continue reading A new mandate requires insurers to cover PrEP HIV prevention drugs by 2025

Doctors, patients try to shame insurers online to reverse authorization denials

Sally Nix was furious when her health insurance company refused to pay for the infusions she needs to ease her chronic pain and fatigue. Nix has struggled with a combination of autoimmune diseases since 2011. Brain and spinal surgeries didn’t ease her symptoms. Nothing worked, she said, until she started intravenous immunoglobulin infusions late last… Continue reading Doctors, patients try to shame insurers online to reverse authorization denials