{"id":621994,"date":"2026-05-04T00:56:27","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T00:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/621994\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T00:56:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T00:56:27","slug":"bristol-myers-23000-a-year-cobenfy-stymied-by-insurance-doctors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/621994\/","title":{"rendered":"Bristol Myers\u2019 $23,000 a Year Cobenfy Stymied by Insurance, Doctors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Patty Mulcahy\u2019s current antipsychotic treatment silenced the voices in her head. But the side effects left the 60-year-old schizophrenia patient unable to appreciate simple pleasures. Bristol Myers Squibb Co.\u2019s Cobenfy, the first new type of drug for the mental illness in seven decades, offers the potential for both.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">But her insurance has refused to cover the therapy that has a list price of about $23,000 a year until she\u2019s tried, and failed, to benefit from other brand name drugs. That\u2019s a problem. Knowing the dangers of ineffective treatment, she\u2019s afraid that she\u2019ll relapse \u2014 and have another psychotic break \u2014 if she\u2019s forced to try the other drugs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Patty Mulcahy\u2019s current antipsychotic treatment silenced the voices in her head. But the side effects left the 60-year-old&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":621995,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[269608,8731,38082,28,11642,11637,269607,2605,30350,10474,97,27252,269609,259,260,14295],"class_list":["post-621994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-adam-lenkowsky","tag-boston","tag-bristol-myers-squibb-co","tag-business","tag-c-suite","tag-chief-executive-officer","tag-columbia-university-medical","tag-drugs","tag-eli-lilly-co","tag-food-and-drug-administration","tag-health","tag-industries","tag-jeff-lieberman","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth","tag-prognosis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=621994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/621995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=621994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=621994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=621994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}