For The Asking, A Check Is In The Mail To Help Pay For Costly Drugs

(By Sarah Jane Tribble for Kaiser Health News)

Kip Burgess was relieved last year when pharmaceutical giant Amgen overnighted him a $2,976 check to help pay for his go-to arthritis drug, Enbrel.

The 36-year-old psychologist had run into an increasingly common problem: The copay coupon sent by Amgen couldn’t cover the drug’s more than $4,000 monthly price. Continue reading article here…

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