As Out-of-Pocket Costs for Neurologic Medications Rise, People Less Likely to Take Them

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As Out-of-Pocket Costs for Neurologic Medications Rise, People Less Likely to Take Them 

Newswise — MINNEAPOLIS – As out-of-pocket costs go up for drugs for the neurologic disorders Alzheimer’s disease, peripheral neuropathy and Parkinson’s disease, people are less likely to take the drugs as often as their doctors prescribed, according to a study funded by the American Academy of Neurology and published in the February 19, 2020, online issue of Neurology^®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.

“These results are concerning,…