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AWARENESS
The majority believe only a few companies offer patient assistance programs.
About how many companies are you aware of that have programs that provide low-income
or uninsured people with access to medicines for free or at a lower rate?
HEALTHCARE
Health
Care Providers
PROVIDERS
All/Most
Opinion Leaders
All/Most
35%
51%
Only a few
None
30%
54%
Only a few
None
14%
16%
Opinion Leaders
73%
60%
47%
Patients
47%
33%
30%
Patients
33%
Insurance representatives
27%
ACCESS
These programs are considered accessible. Confidence levels are slightly higher among opinion
leaders than providers, a step in the right direction as most think this is a patients responsibility.
How confident do you feel that you could help yourself or a patient gain
access to one of these programs? Please use a scale of 0 to 10 where 0
means not confident and 10 means very confident.
Not Confident
Very Confident
10
Health Care
Providers
7.2
Total Opinion
Leaders
7.3
7.5
Both opinion leaders and health care providers believe it is the patients
responsibility to find and access these programs.
Who do you think is responsible for researching and gaining access to these programs?
Multiple Choice Question
Opinion Leaders
Patient
40%
42%
Insurance Company
26%
19%
Primary Physician
14%
18%
Pharmaceutical Company
12%
14%
7%
4%
Other
2%
3%
APCO Insight interviewed 287 Health Care Opinion Leaders (n=200) and Health Care Providers
(n=87) between October 9-22, 2015. Interviews were conducted online or over the telephone. Health
Care Opinion Leaders were defined as the top 10 percent most active and engaged segment of the
general public. Health Care Providers included generalists, specialists, nurses and pharmacists.
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