Migraine Matters
Patient Advocate Foundation is excited to share its expertise surrounding the challenges patients with migraine disease experience when it comes to financial stability, medical debt crisis and insurance products, all delivered in a new tool that you can use. Migraine Matters is built to serve the needs of patients and the providers working on behalf of their care with actionable information on the topics they need.
Providing a quality patient experience to every patient we work with is our number one priority. To ensure our case management team can provide the in-depth, hands-on support required to resolve access and affordability challenges faced by patients and families calling us for help, we limit the number of new cases our case management team can accept each day. If you call and we are unable to accept your case at the time you call, please call us back the next day.
MIGRAINE MATTERS TIP SHEETS
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MIGRAINE MATTERS ON-DEMAND WEBINAR SERIES
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In this session, we will discuss common barriers that can frustrate patients and delay care, and provide information that can help avoid and navigate these situations. Barriers related to accessing preventive and acute migraine medications, alternative and complementary therapies, and non-medical options will be shared.
In this session, we will outline what it means to get a second opinion, and benefits for these appointments under your insurance plan. We will discuss fears regarding seeking a second opinion and how to pick the right doctor for you. We will wrap up by discussing how to prepare for a second opinion appointment.
In this session, we will provide an outline of the appeals process and how to recognize if you have an insurance denial. We will discuss how to engage your provider in this process for support. Lastly, we will go over the steps to a successful appeal and how to file one to give yourself the best chance of success.
In this session, we provide an outline of the role drug formularies play in their medication benefits. We will go over how tiers influence out-of-pocket costs, how to use your knowledge to your advantage, and how to access needed medications on and off your formulary. We will also hit on how to handle formulary changes, even in the middle of a plan year.
In this session, we will outline the different Social Security Administration disability programs, who is eligible to apply for disability, and how to get started with the application process. As well, we will go through what materials should be included with your disability application and discuss the timeline for the application process.
The goal of this session is to help you understand the Social Security Administration’s decision process and offer next steps if you are approved for disability. As well, we will go through what your appeal rights are and how to initiate one if you receive a denial for Social Security Disability. We will wrap up by talking about the process for going back to work once you have been on Disability.
In this session, we outline employer-sponsored health insurance and COBRA. We also discuss long and short-term disability and how to utilize that benefit. As well, we dive into the Family and Medical Leave Act and the best ways to communicate with your employer while you’re out on leave. We touch on how to use the Americans with Disabilities Act to your advantage and what steps to take if you are harassed at work.
In this session, we will go over what open enrollment is and why it’s important to you. We’ll discuss where you can locate insurance options and how to decide which option is the best. We will cover cost considerations when shopping for a plan, and important things to know before you make that final choice for the year.
We will discuss the different phases of clinical trials and how they relate to approval by the FDA. We explain the ability for drug manufacturers to move their products to the larger market. We will touch on enrollment and criteria for clinical trials, and go over informed consent and the protections that participants receive when they enroll into a trial.
Migraine Matters is brought to you by Patient Advocate Foundation, working alongside advocates and medical experts from Migraine, Headache, and Neurology fields to identify the topics and resources you need most.