How Assistance Works
Streamlining our patient’s specialty pharmacy experience with unmatched full-service convenience
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1. Check Your Coverage/Benefits Verification
Our team of expert billers finds the best avenues of coverage that minimize out-of-pocket costs.
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2. Transfer Prescription to AmeriPharma®
We process your prescription by working with your previous pharmacy or prescriber, making the transition quick and easy.
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3. Prior Authorization
Our team of specialists obtains approval from your insurance companies within 24 to 72 hours.
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4. Copay Assistance & Financial Aid
We secure financial aid and decrease copays, out-of-pocket expenses, and high deductibles. To date, AmeriPharma® Specialty Care has secured $55 million in financial assistance for our patients.
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5. Nursing Care Coordination If Needed
AmeriPharma® puts your schedule and home environment first when scheduling and coordinating one of our specialized nurses for your in-home infusions.
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6. Delivery Coordination
Medications are always delivered in strict compliance with the specific requirements for shipping. Next-day and overnight cold-chain deliveries are coordinated around your schedule.
What Is Mayzent?
Mayzent is a brand-name prescription medication. The active ingredient in this product is siponimod, which belongs to the medication class known as sphingosine 1-phosphate receptor modulators.
The mechanism as to how this medication works isn’t specifically known.
However, researchers think it works on the immune system by preventing white blood cells called lymphocytes from migrating to the brain and spinal cord. By doing this, it helps reduce tissue damage in people with relapsing forms of multiple sclerosis.
Whether this medication helps repair damaged myelin in humans isn’t known. However, it has been shown to support regeneration in animal studies.
What Is Mayzent Used For?
The FDA approved this product to treat adults with:
Clinically isolated syndrome (CIS)
CIS is when the first episode of symptoms characteristic of MS appears. However, they don’t meet the criteria for a clinical diagnosis. CIS may progress to multiple sclerosis.
Relapsing-remitting MS (RRMS)
RRMS is when the disease progresses with alternating periods of worsening symptoms (relapses) and partial recovery (remission).
Active secondary progressive MS (SPMS)
Over time, most people with RRMS eventually develop SPMS. In this stage of MS, your disability worsens. Relapses may occur, but remissions are rare in this stage.
Copay and Financial Assistance
AmeriPharma® Specialty Pharmacy alleviates financial burdens for patients and their families
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Advanced software locates funding sources to match you with top-dollar foundation programs
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One of our copay assistance specialists will assist with the application process
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Automatic updates will be sent to you and your physician on the status of the funding
How To Use Mayzent Properly
Mayzent is available as an oral tablet in the following strengths:
- 0.25 mg
- 1 mg
- 2 mg
Take the dosage exactly as prescribed and at the same time each day. Don’t take less, more, or take the medication for longer than prescribed. You may take this medicine with or without food.
Never stop taking this medicine without consulting your healthcare provider first.
Follow the instructions on the prescription label. If you’re not sure how to use the medicine, seek help from your prescriber or pharmacist.
Swallow the tablet whole with about 8 ounces of water. Avoid splitting, chewing, or crushing them.
Your provider will likely start treatment on a low dose, which may be gradually increased over the first 4 or 5 days.
This medication may cause a slow heart rate, which is more likely to occur during the first 6 hours after you take the first dose.
You will have a test called an electrocardiogram (ECG) to measure the electrical activity of the heart. This test is run twice: once before the first dose, and once 6 hours after the first dose.
The first dose is taken at a medical facility. You should stay at the facility for the next 6 hours so that your healthcare provider can monitor you for a slow heartbeat.
An overnight or a longer-than-6-hour stay may be necessary if you have specific medical conditions, any heart abnormalities that occurred during the first dose, or if you use medicines that might slow your heart rate.
Tell your provider if you experience any of the following during treatment with this medication:
- Dizziness
- Tiredness
- Chest pain
- Slow or irregular heartbeat
Mayzent Side Effects
Mild side effects include:
- Headache
- Blood pressure increase
- Liver enzyme increase
- Swelling or pain in your arms or legs
- Falls
- Nausea
- Diarrhea
- Dizziness
Serious side effects include:
Reduced lung function
- Difficulty breathing
- Chest pain
- Wheezing
- Tiredness
Increased blood pressure
- Headache
- Chest pain
- Difficulty breathing
Posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome
(This is a rare condition in which your brain swells.)
- Blindness
- Confusion
- Feeling tired or lacking energy
- Headache
- Seizures
New or worsening MS symptoms when stopping Mayzent treatment
- Changes in vision
- Tingling
- Numbness
- Dizziness
Infections
Mayzent can make you more likely to get serious infections. Symptoms can include:
- Fever
- Tiredness
- Body aches
- Chills
- Nausea
- Vomiting
- Neck stiffness
- Sensitivity to light
- Confusion
Macular edema (fluid accumulation in the central region of the retina)
- Blurry vision
- Sensitivity to light
- Unusually colored vision
Insurances Accepted
We accept Medicare, multi-state Medicaid, Medi-Cal, Blue Shield, and most private insurances. Call us to find out more about your coverage.
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