For more than 52 years, the National Headache Foundation (NHF) has been the voice for more than 40 million Americans living with migraine. For too long, migraine patients have been treated differently than others with medical issues as it relates to access to prescription medications. Specifically, clinicians are often forced to use outdated prescription drugs in a stepwise approach to all patients, without considering the needs of the individual patient.

Unfortunately, the current care models adopted by payers (health insurance) have not kept pace with the many advances in treatment. As a result, clinicians are using older medications, some of which are not even designed for the specific treatment of migraine, even though new migraine-specific therapies now exist.

The NHF advocates that payers adopt care models that are patient-centric, where the clinician, in collaboration with the patient, is the primary decision-maker and selects a treatment that addresses the patient’s treatment goals and needs.

Add your name. Follow the link to read the NHF's Access to Care position statement: https://bit.ly/TeamPatientNHF

Thomas Dabertin, Executive Director/CEO
National Headache Foundation
Tdabertin@headaches.org