Assist your patients taking XOLAIR with insurance and reimbursement coverage

With injectable medications, patients are often concerned about covering co-pay costs, and other reimbursement issues.
With XOLAIR, an extensive set of resources is in place to assist healthcare providers and patients address insurance and administrative concerns.

Some of the valuable resources you’ll find include:

  • Help with insurance concerns
    Personalized assistance and expert support for patients who have no insurance or who are having trouble with the out-of-pocket costs of their prescription. XOLAIR Access Solutions
  • Help for privately insured patients concerned with co-pays
    Co-pay assistance for privately insured XOLAIR patients concerned about their co-pays. XOLAIR Debit Card Program
  • Uninsured patient assistance program
    Free XOLAIR prescription assistance for eligible patients without insurance or who are rendered uninsured by payer denial. Patients must meet specific insurance, financial, and medical criteria. Genentech Access to Care Foundation
  • Assistance with billing questions
    Get the right answers and helpful information for your billing questions. XOLAIR Coding and Billing Help Line
  • Help with questions about XOLAIR
    Around-the-clock support and expert guidance offered to patients. XOLAIR Call Center

INDICATION
XOLAIR® (omalizumab) for subcutaneous use IS INDICATED FOR adults and adolescents (12 years of age and above) with moderate to severe persistent asthma who have a positive skin test or in vitro reactivity to a perennial aeroallergen and whose symptoms are inadequately controlled with inhaled corticosteroids.

XOLAIR has been shown to decrease the incidence of asthma exacerbations in these patients.

Important Limitations of Use
XOLAIR is not indicated for treatment of other allergic conditions
XOLAIR is not indicated for the relief of acute bronchospasm or status asthmaticus
XOLAIR is not indicated for use in pediatric patients less than 12 years of age

IMPORTANT SAFETY INFORMATION

WARNING: Anaphylaxis

Anaphylaxis presenting as bronchospasm, hypotension, syncope, urticaria, and/or angioedema of the throat or tongue, has been reported to occur after administration of XOLAIR. Anaphylaxis has occurred as early as after the first dose of XOLAIR, but also has occurred beyond 1 year after beginning regularly administered treatment. Because of the risk of anaphylaxis, observe patients closely for an appropriate period of time after XOLAIR administration. Healthcare providers administering XOLAIR should be prepared to manage anaphylaxis that can be life-threatening. Inform patients of the signs and symptoms of anaphylaxis and instruct them to seek immediate medical care should symptoms occur (see Warnings and Precautions: Anaphylaxis).

XOLAIR should only be administered in a healthcare setting by healthcare providers prepared to manage anaphylaxis that can be life-threatening.
XOLAIR should not be administered to patients who have experienced a severe hypersensitivity reaction to XOLAIR or any ingredient of XOLAIR (see Warnings and Precautions). XOLAIR should be discontinued in patients who experience a severe hypersensitivity reaction.
Malignant neoplasms were observed in 20 of 4127 (0.5%) XOLAIR-treated patients compared with 5 of 2236 (0.2%) control patients in clinical studies of asthma and other allergic disorders.
XOLAIR has not been shown to alleviate asthma exacerbations acutely. Do not use XOLAIR to treat acute bronchospasm or status asthmaticus.
Patients should be given and instructed to read the accompanying Medication Guide before starting treatment and before each subsequent treatment.
Do not abruptly discontinue corticosteroid use upon initiation of XOLAIR therapy. Decrease corticosteroids gradually under the direct supervision of a physician.
In patients >12 years of age, the most commonly observed adverse reactions (>1% more frequent in XOLAIR-treated patients) from 4 placebo-controlled asthma studies were arthralgia (8%), pain (general) (7%), leg pain (4%), fatigue (3%), dizziness (3%), fracture (2%), arm pain (2%), pruritus (2%), dermatitis (2%), and earache (2%).
The adverse events most frequently resulting in clinical intervention (eg, discontinuation of XOLAIR, or the need for concomitant medication to treat an adverse event), in either placebo-controlled or other controlled asthma studies, were injection site reaction (45%), viral infections (23%), upper respiratory tract infection (20%), sinusitis (16%), headache (15%), and pharyngitis (11%). These events were observed at similar rates in XOLAIR-treated patients and control patients.

 
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Allergic Asthma Facts
Which of the following are stated in the 2007 NHLBI Guidelines as signs of lack of control? Please select all that apply
a) >2 exacerbations per year requiring oral corticosteroid bursts
b) Symptoms >2 days per week
c) Reliever medication required >2 days per week
d) Nighttime awakenings 1 to 3 times per week