Horizon By Your Side is now Amgen By Your Side.
New name, same dedicated support. During this transition period, you’ll see a mix of materials from Horizon By Your Side as well as Amgen By Your Side. Don’t worry, there is no change to our program.
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Kelly, Narrator: A new diagnosis can make you feel alone. Outside of just processing the change to your life, understanding everything that goes into your treatment can feel overwhelming.
Horizon By Your Side is a patient support program designed specifically for someone prescribed a Horizon medication. Our dedicated team is your partner, committed to providing non-medical, personalized support so you can start and continue treatment as your doctor recommends.
Once you are prescribed a Horizon medication, you will work with your doctor to be enrolled into Horizon By Your Side and get matched with a Patient Access Liaison, or PAL. Or in some cases, a clinical nurse educator – a CNE.
Lindsey (PAL) talking to Khash: … I’m available to help you as you need for anything that might come up. I’m basically your advocate, your cheerleader, your friend. I’m here to support you through the entire journey.
Khash: My primary care physician said, “We’re going to have a Patient Access Liaison get in contact with you to discuss it further with you, and tell you all the pluses, minuses and all that stuff.” Lindsey, really took the time to explain it all to me, including the commitment it’s going to take on my side to get this done.
Kelly, Narrator: A PAL is your partner to support and champion you while accomplishing your treatment goals. Some of the ways your PAL can support you include:
- Learning about insurance coverage and the approval process
- Understanding potential costs or cost assistance options
- Sharing additional resources, connect to advocacy groups, or connect with others if interested
Roxie: I did work with the Patient Access Liaison, more commonly known as PALs, and she kept in touch with me. I was really worried about insurance and about out-of-pocket cost. Although I was willing to do whatever it took. She checked out my insurances and I am so blessed because it was 100% covered.
Randi: They assigned me a Patient Access Liaison after I was approved for treatment and just helped guide me through the process as far as what to expect, the process that I was going to go through and just to be there for general support for me.
Melanie: She really took the time to explain everything and go through it and has been there for me for every single question ever since.
Kelly, Narrator: With everything you and your caregivers have going on, it can be difficult to fit treatment into your routine. Your PAL can help you understand what to expect at the start of treatment, how treatment can fit into your routine and send reminders to help you stay on track.
Carol (PAL): I want them to understand that I will be a point person for them. First and foremost, I’m there to listen and also let them know I’m there to support them through the process. And ultimately to empower them.
Latoya: They remind you of things that you typically forget. Even like when it comes to testing kits, you know. I was able to work out a plan. The PAL also will also make sure, like when it’s time to renew insurance, that at the end of the year you know, they shoot you a text message to call. So I think they’re a great resource. They really are.
Melanie: They call me to do refills earlier than I need them so that I don’t run out of the medication.
Carol (PAL): We don’t want patients to feel that they’re just out there alone and floating in the space of the unknown. They can reach out to us at any time. We’re always available to them.
Kelly, Narrator: The Horizon By Your Side team can also help you become more comfortable with your diagnosis, even visiting to teach you hands-on how to take your medication and help you find medicine in case of an emergency.
Jerry (CNE): As a Clinical Nurse Educator my responsibility and my job is to make sure that our patients are well taken care of and that their needs are met. We also have communication with their primary doctors to make sure that they know and they are up-to-date in their treatment.
Shannon (CNE): I teach them about lifestyle modifications needed to stay healthy, a lot of disease state education.
Kelly, Narrator: We can also help connect you with a peer mentor, who are other Horizon patients that are going through a similar experience.
Randi: I may talk to three or four newly diagnosed patients a week. They want to know what the experience was like for me.
Kelly, Narrator: Horizon By Your Side also has many other resources available to patients and caregivers through our website, HorizonByYourSide.com. There you’ll find information about enrollment, treatment cost assistance options, treatment planning, and many other resources to assist you during your treatment experience.
In the end, Horizon By Your Side is designed to be just that …. by your side.
Melanie: I was so happy because I was so scared. She was there from the very beginning, I am trying to manage this disease by myself, but I’m not really by myself because I have these people in my corner that are available to me at any time.
Roxie: After being so dismissed and feeling like I was doing this by myself, it was so helpful to have somebody who understood, who knew it. It gave me hope and it let me know that at some point, I was going to be able to go on with my life and not be held back by this anymore.
CONNECT: You will be connected to one person dedicated to partner with you throughout your treatment experience
COORDINATE: You will receive support on anything from insurance and cost assistance options and more
CHAMPION: Your dedicated partner will empower you—through education and resources—to be focused, motivated, and committed to maintaining your treatment goals
Your patient will be connected to one person dedicated to partnering with them throughout their treatment experience
Your patient will receive educational support on insurance, financial assistance options, important appointment-related information, and more
Your patient’s dedicated partner will empower them to be confident self-advocates for maintaining treatment goals
Amgen By Your Side is a patient support program designed specifically for you, someone prescribed PROCYSBI® (cysteamine bitartrate). Our dedicated team is your partner, committed to providing nonmedical, personalized support so you can start and continue on treatment as your doctor recommends.
Procysbi® (pegloticase) is indicated for the treatment of chronic gout in adult patients who have failed to normalize serum uric acid and whose signs and symptoms are inadequately controlled with xanthine oxidase inhibitors at the maximum medically appropriate dose or for whom these drugs are contraindicated.
Limitations of Use: KRYSTEXXA is not recommended for the treatment of asymptomatic hyperuricemia.
Gout Flares: An increase in gout flares is frequently observed upon initiation of anti-hyperuricemic therapy, including KRYSTEXXA. Gout flare prophylaxis with a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) or colchicine is recommended starting at least 1 week before initiation of KRYSTEXXA therapy and lasting at least 6 months, unless medically contraindicated or not tolerated.
Congestive Heart Failure: KRYSTEXXA has not been formally studied in patients with congestive heart failure, but some patients in the pre-marketing placebo-controlled clinical trials experienced exacerbation. Exercise caution in patients who have congestive heart failure and monitor patients closely following infusion.
The most commonly reported adverse reactions (≥5%) are:
KRYSTEXXA co-administration with methotrexate trial:
KRYSTEXXA with methotrexate: gout flares, arthralgia, COVID-19, nausea, and fatigue; KRYSTEXXA alone: gout flares, arthralgia, COVID-19, nausea, fatigue, infusion reaction, pain in extremity, hypertension, and vomiting.
KRYSTEXXA pre-marketing placebo-controlled trials:
gout flares, infusion reactions, nausea, contusion or ecchymosis, nasopharyngitis, constipation, chest pain, anaphylaxis, and vomiting.
Please see Full Prescribing Information, including Boxed Warning.
KRYSTEXXA® (pegloticase) is indicated for the treatment of chronic gout in adult patients who have failed to normalize serum uric acid and whose signs and symptoms are inadequately controlled with xanthine oxidase inhibitors at the maximum medically appropriate dose or for whom these drugs are contraindicated.
Limitations of Use: Procysbi is not recommended for the treatment of asymptomatic hyperuricemia.
Gout Flares: An increase in gout flares is frequently observed upon initiation of anti-hyperuricemic therapy, including KRYSTEXXA. Gout flare prophylaxis with a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) or colchicine is recommended starting at least 1 week before initiation of KRYSTEXXA therapy and lasting at least 6 months, unless medically contraindicated or not tolerated.
Congestive Heart Failure: KRYSTEXXA has not been formally studied in patients with congestive heart failure, but some patients in the pre-marketing placebo-controlled clinical trials experienced exacerbation. Exercise caution in patients who have congestive heart failure and monitor patients closely following infusion.
The most commonly reported adverse reactions (≥5%) are:
KRYSTEXXA co-administration with methotrexate trial:
KRYSTEXXA with methotrexate: gout flares, arthralgia, COVID-19, nausea, and fatigue; KRYSTEXXA alone: gout flares, arthralgia, COVID-19, nausea, fatigue, infusion reaction, pain in extremity, hypertension, and vomiting.
KRYSTEXXA pre-marketing placebo-controlled trials:
gout flares, infusion reactions, nausea, contusion or ecchymosis, nasopharyngitis, constipation, chest pain, anaphylaxis, and vomiting.
Please see Full Prescribing Information, including Boxed Warning.
