Attack-based Care

With proper access and an attack-based treatment plan, patients can be prepared to manage their migraine.

Infused Migraine Medication 101

With awareness, education and adequate insurance coverage, patients and their health care providers can use the growing range of treatment options to find the best way to manage their migraine disease.

Patient Access to Migraine Devices

Migraine is a complex disease – and not every treatment works for every person. That’s why having more options is always better.

Highlight Reel: Chronic Headache Disorders & Toxic Exposure: A Policy Panel Discussion

The Pain of Waiting for Migraine Medication

Delay tactics for migraine treatment are painful, unnecessary, and can actually wind up being more expensive for the insurer and the health care system.

Barriers to Patient Access: Non-Medical Switching

When insurers switch stable patients' medication, patients may face re-emerging symptoms, battle new side effects and even wind up in the ER.

What’s Wrong With ICER?

Sometimes economists can have more control than your doctor about whether you get the medicine that treats your condition.

Understanding Patient-Centered Care

The health care system has focused on disease long enough. It’s time to focus on patients.

Maureen Moriarty, DNP, on Barriers to Migraine Treatment

Combination therapy can be life-changing for people who have migraine disease, but health plans are standing in the way.

Heather McCoy, DrNP, on Barriers to Migraine Treatment

When health plans say "no" to innovative medicine, some migraine patients may give up on treatment. Dr. McCoy describes the frustration and sadness of seeing prior authorization stop her patients from achieving a better quality of life.

Christopher Gottschalk, MD, on Barriers to Migraine Treatment

What if innovative migraine medication could be prescribed only by a rare type of headache specialist? Dr. Christopher Gottschalk explains why health plans' prescribing restrictions are bad for patients.

My Migraine Patients' Combination Therapy Battle

A headache specialist explains how health plans are blocking her patients from accessing combination therapy.

Non-Medical Switching Hurts Patients

In a first-of-its-kind study, the Alliance for Patient Access reveals that non-medical switching, where insurers or pharmacy benefit managers drive stable patients to switch to lower-cost medicines, can levy widespread damage on patients' quality of life.

Non-Medical Switching of Neurotoxins

Botulinum neurotoxins can bring relief to patients who experience migraine, involuntary twitching, and excessive sweating. Learn what happens when health plans switch patients' medication in this video.

Patients' Fight for Access

Migraine patients deserve access to innovative therapies. Ready to get involved? Watch their story and join the fight for access now.

Who Are Headache Disorders & Migraine Hurting?

Who feels the impact of headache disorders and migraine? More people than you may think, according to a new video from The Headache & Migraine Policy Forum.

Living with Migraines: Non-Stop Rollercoaster

Heather Zanitsch explains how living with migraine disease is a “non-stop rollercoaster.”

Living with Migraines: The Food King

Watch how Tom Sayen is committed to serving his friends and his community despite chronic intractable migraines.

Living With Migraines: The Art of Enduring

Learn how Barbara Monette has used art to cope with chronic migraines for nearly a decade.