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A new study led by the Headache & Migraine Policy Forum and recently published in the journal Headache quantifies the extent to which insurance barriers continue to limit access to effective migraine treatments.
This abstract was published in the Headache Journal in January 2026.
This abstract was published in the Headache Journal on July 2023.
A national data supplier provided migraine patient insurance claims from January 2019 to December 2021. The Headache & Migraine Forum used this data to show how step therapy hurts people living with migraine and headache disorders.
Utilization management criteria influence patients’ access to specialty drugs, yet the processes used by health plans to establish these criteria are not well understood. This study examined the alignment between clinical practice guidelines and plans’ utilization management criteria.