For patients managing chronic or complex medical conditions, adherence to prescribed therapy—whether it involves medications, infusion treatments, medical devices, or other clinical interventions—is essential to achieving favorable health outcomes. However, accessing these therapies remains a widespread challenge due to a variety of financial, logistical, and systemic hurdles. Annexus Health is working to close these access gaps by removing obstacles to treatment adherence, ensuring that prescribed therapies can be completed as intended.
The True Cost of Therapy: When Treatment Becomes Financially Out of Reach
Despite medical breakthroughs in treating complex conditions, the out-of-pocket costs for therapy can be prohibitive. High deductibles, copayments, coinsurance, and uncovered services often force patients to delay or abandon treatment altogether, even when the therapy has already been prescribed by their physician. For patients with chronic conditions, this leads to worsening health, increased hospitalizations, and unnecessary complications that drive up the cost of care.
Annexus Health’s AssistPoint platform directly addresses these concerns by streamlining processes and accelerating the management of financial assistance and access services for healthcare organizations. These efforts reduce or eliminate financial barriers, enabling patients to start and stay on therapy.
Geographic and Logistical Barriers: Distance Shouldn’t Dictate Access
For patients in rural or underserved areas, geography itself can be a major barrier to therapy. When the nearest specialty pharmacy or infusion center is hours away, patients may miss appointments, skip doses, or be forced to choose between treatment and other life priorities like work or childcare.
Annexus Health is helping to close access gaps by streamlining the patient onboarding and therapy initiation process through advanced e-signature capabilities, including DocuSign integration. By enabling patients and providers to securely complete, sign, and submit essential documentation electronically, regardless of physical location, Annexus Health reduces administrative burdens and delays. This digital-first approach empowers patients to begin and continue therapy with fewer obstacles, enhancing care coordination and adherence across geographically diverse settings.
Program Enrollment Complexity: A Barrier Hidden in Plain Sight
While many financial assistance and patient support programs exist, they are often difficult for both patients and providers to access. Paperwork-heavy application processes, incomplete information, and lack of visibility into available options can delay or derail enrollment. As a result, patients who qualify for aid may miss out on therapy simply because they can’t get through the red tape.
To address this, Annexus Health partners with life science companies, providers, and healthcare institutions to simplify and accelerate enrollment into assistance programs. Through its platforms and services, Annexus Health makes it possible for provider teams to match eligible patients with available programs in real time, ensuring that access is not a matter of persistence, but of process design.
Supporting Providers: Easing the Operational Burden
Access to therapy isn’t just a patient issue, it’s also a provider challenge. Oncology practices, infusion centers, specialty clinics, and other care teams often face limited resources to manage the backend tasks required to secure therapy access for each patient. These include verifying benefits, submitting prior authorizations, communicating with manufacturers, coordinating delivery logistics, and tracking financial assistance utilization.
Adparo, Annexus Health’s dedicated services division, optimizes revenue and reduces costs by expertly managing the financial assistance revenue cycle, allowing your organization to focus more on patient care.
Therapy Adherence as a Holistic Access Challenge
The reality is that many patients who are prescribed therapy never begin it, or discontinue it prematurely, not because the treatment failed—but because the system failed to support them. Access to therapy involves much more than a prescription pad; it requires a coordinated, streamlined infrastructure that connects patients with the right resources, the right support, and the right timing.
Annexus Health’s approach to closing gaps in medical therapy access is built on this understanding. By tackling financial, logistical, and systemic obstacles head-on, the company is transforming how patients experience the treatment process. This results in higher adherence, better clinical outcomes, and ultimately, more lives improved and saved.
A System-Level Commitment to Health Equity and Access
Ensuring patients can access and adhere to their prescribed therapy is not just a question of individual compliance; it is a system-wide challenge that calls for innovation, coordination, and compassion. Annexus Health is driving this shift by equipping providers with tools to navigate access hurdles and ensuring that patients are not left behind due to financial or logistical hurdles.
As chronic and complex conditions continue to rise in prevalence, so too must our commitment to ensuring that therapy is not merely prescribed, but effectively delivered, supported, and sustained. With its focus on removing access barriers at every level, Annexus Health is setting a new standard for how therapy adherence should be approached in the modern healthcare system.
