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State Senator Announces Formation of Patient, Physician, Industry Alliance to Solve Problems of Access to Human Plasma-Based Therapies

Published in Lab Law Weekly, May 25th, 2007

At today's meeting of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Advisory Committee on Blood Safety and Availability, Nebraska State Senator Abbie Cornett will announce the formation of the Alliance for Plasma Therapies. The Alliance, chaired by Cornett, was formed to help resolve the complex challenges patients and healthcare providers face in obtaining fair access to and reimbursement for human plasma products and their administration.

The first challenge the Alliance will tackle is the current intravenous immune globulin (IVIG) access crisis affecting patients and healthcare providers across the United States. IVIG, a plasma product used to treat many...

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