Payers subject 80% of new RA and MS patients to utilization management restrictions

A new analysis from IQVIA shows that in 2018, 80% of commercially insured patients attempting to fill a new prescription for a rheumatoid arthritis (RA) or multiple sclerosis (MS) medicine encountered a utilization management restriction. Of those patients, 3 out of 10 were unable to gain approval from their commercial market health plan to start new treatments their doctors prescribed for them within 30 days.