by Enid Vazquez, via Positively Aware's recent (an excellent resource) "Let's Talk about PrEP" issue.
And be sure to check out this new fact sheet on payment strategies for both PrEP and PEP published August 21 by NASTAD: "Pharmaceutical Patient Assistance Programs and Co-Payment Assistance Programs for PrEP and PEP."
Asked if he’s had any problems getting insurance companies to pay for HIV PrEP, HIV specialist Tony Mills, MD, of Los Angeles, replied, “None so far.”
In Chicago, Michelle M. Agnoli, RN, with the Midwest AIDS
Training and Education Center (MATEC), said, “There’ve been no problems
that I’m aware of. None.”
And Shannon Weber, MSW, of the Bay Area Perinatal HIV Center (BAPAC) out of San Francisco General Hospital, said, “I’ve only heard one report of it not being approved. Generally I’m hearing positive responses about access.”
But concern about how to pay for PrEP is the number one question Weber gets when she makes presentations about the new HIV prevention therapy. Doctors will tell her “it’s hard to get [insurance] coverage,” yet when she asks them if they have prescribed PrEP, none of them have.
And be sure to check out this new fact sheet on payment strategies for both PrEP and PEP published August 21 by NASTAD: "Pharmaceutical Patient Assistance Programs and Co-Payment Assistance Programs for PrEP and PEP."
Asked if he’s had any problems getting insurance companies to pay for HIV PrEP, HIV specialist Tony Mills, MD, of Los Angeles, replied, “None so far.”
And Shannon Weber, MSW, of the Bay Area Perinatal HIV Center (BAPAC) out of San Francisco General Hospital, said, “I’ve only heard one report of it not being approved. Generally I’m hearing positive responses about access.”
But concern about how to pay for PrEP is the number one question Weber gets when she makes presentations about the new HIV prevention therapy. Doctors will tell her “it’s hard to get [insurance] coverage,” yet when she asks them if they have prescribed PrEP, none of them have.
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