2 May 2019 - Many patients with neurologic disorders like multiple sclerosis, epilepsy and Parkinson’s disease have seen steep increases in their out-of-pocket costs for drugs in recent years, a U.S. study suggests.

Researchers examined data on out-of-pocket drug costs from 2004 to 2016 for more than 912,000 people with private health insurance who had multiple sclerosis, peripheral neuropathy, epilepsy, dementia or Parkinson’s disease.

All of the patients took at least one medication to treat these disorders, and researchers tracked costs for the most commonly prescribed and most expensive drugs for each condition.

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