Last year, we awarded the State Advocacy Pioneer Award to Representative Kyle Mullins and Senator Devlin Robinson, two state politicians who have demonstrated a passion for passing our advocacy initiatives and directly engages with the community to serve those impacted with arthritis, through their bi-partisan support and leadership of passing PA's biomarker bill.
We will be presenting these awards at the PA State Capitol, having legislative meetings with your elected officials on arthritis priorities, and hanging with fellow Arthritis Foundation advocates at a lunch.
Melissa Horn (Our State Legislative Affairs Director) will be in person at this Lobby Day! You won't want to miss it.
If you would like to be part of this award ceremony and legislative day, please fill out the survey. Additionally, we are able to provide some gas cards to make sure you are able to be there.
We will follow up with more details, and as always, prepare to wear some GREEN!
Name
Cell number -- for Lobby Day use only!
Home Address (For legislative meeting scheduling purposes)
Are you committing to coming to the June 23rd PA Lobby Day in Harrisburg, PA?
Do you have financial need for travel assistance? (Gas card)
Food allergies?
Please list an Emergency Contact & their contact information
We are looking for copay accumulator stories that we can turn into media advocacy pieces!
Copay Accumulator Adjustment programs prevent any co-payment assistance that may be available for high-cost specialty drugs from counting toward a patient’s deductible or maximum out-of-pocket expenses. Many pharmaceutical manufacturers offer co-pay cards that help cover a patient’s portion of drug costs. Traditionally, pharmacy benefit managers have allowed these co-pay card payments to count toward the deductible required by a patient’s health insurance plan. With an accumulator adjustment program, patients are still allowed to apply the co-pay card benefits to pay for their medications up to the full limit of the cards, but when that limit is met, the patient is required to pay their full deductible before cost-sharing protections kick in.
Please answer the following:
Would you like to support our media advocacy campaign in PA by completing a letter to the editor, op-ed, or other form of media advocacy OR by consenting for us to use quotes?
Has your health insurance ever stopped counting copay assistance toward your out of pocket maximum?
How did this affect your ability to afford your medication?
What challenges, if any, have you faced because of copay accumulator programs, and how have these impacted your health?
