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Ticket to Work is a program of the Social Security Administration (SSA) designed to make the transition to employment for recipients of Social

According to USFDA, a combination product is one composed of any combination of a drug and device; biological product and device; drug and biological product

Security cash benefits (SSI and /or SSDI) as smooth as possible.

Going to work while receiving benefits can be a complicated process. Socia

; or drug, device, and biological product and fixed dose combination would include two or more combinations of drug.

Examples of combination products may in

Security’s work rules can be difficult to figure out. As a matter of fact, many people have given up before applying for even a single job.

lude drug-coated devices, drugs packaged with delivery devices in medical kits, and drugs and devices packaged separately but intended to be used together.

The good news is that people voiced their frustration over this and Social Security listened and did something about it. They created the Ti

here is enormous increase in the number of combination products entering the market in the recent years. Combination products have proven advantages but fixe

ket program. (The Ticket program is voluntary; you do not have to participate in it if you don’t want to.)

In this article, I will tell you

d dose combinations are still in the process of convincing regulatory authority on their advantages over the single ingredient formulations.

Combination pro

a little bit about two important aspects of the Ticket program, WIPA and EN, a better understanding of which can help you to make the Ticket p

ucts have become life saving products for the pharmaceutical companies who doesn’t have many innovative molecules in their product pipeline and have been inc

ogram work to your advantage.

WIPA stands for Work Incentives Planning and Assistance. SSA provides grants to over 100 organizations nationw

easingly used in the product life cycle management. Even the companies having product patents are trying to extend their product life cycle through the combi

ide to deliver WIPA services to beneficiaries of SSI and SSDI. Resource Partnership is proud to be one of those WIPA grantees; we provide the

nation products and maximize the revenues. But the companies involved in this practice are overlooking that they are burdening the patients both economically

e services in Massachusetts. Since November of 2000, Resource Partnership’s WIPA program, which we call BenePLAN, has been assisting benefici

and physically. They need to rightly judge the benefits of the combination products and they have to even look at the risks involved when combining the produ

aries of SSI and SSDI to successfully navigate through the complex rules of SSA to get the information they need to decide whether pursuing em

ts. Some of the combination products were well accepted by physicians while others suffered. Companies involved in development of combination products are fi

loyment or training is right for them. We have seen many people work their way through various benefits systems and move successfully into em

ding difficulty in defining their combination products and facing various challenges from selecting a combination to marketing it.

Following aspects would a

ployment. It is complicated but, as BenePLAN can attest to, it can be done.

Our three very knowledgeable and experienced Benefits Specialist

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

Which markets to tap where the combination products can do fairly well?
Which combination prod

, Teri O’Shea, David Silva and Brian Forsythe, assist with SSI/SSDI work rules and incentives as well as other important benefits such as Medi

cts are meaningful and rational?
Which therapeutic categories to select?
Which Combinations can address unmet needs of the patients?
Do combin

care, Medicaid, MassHealth, CommonHealth, Subsidized Housing, TANF, EAEDC, Worker’s Compensation and Long-Term Disability Insurance. Teri, D

tions increase the patient compliance?
What would be the developing cost?
How to tackle the risks encountered during combination product developmen

vid and Brian are available throughout your entire employment process: as you prepare to go to work, as you transition into employment, while

t?

As combination products don't fit into the traditional categories of drugs, medical devices, or biological products, the USFDA is in the process of devel

you are working, and if you stop working or change jobs.

EN stands for Employment Network. ENs are human service and vocational rehabilitati

ping new procedures for reviewing their safety, efficacy and quality.

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

n agencies that sign up with Social Security’s Ticket to Work program to assist recipients of SSI/SSDI to prepare for and obtain employment.

y and representatives from various regulatory agencies are working out to design the regulatory requirements for manufacture and sale of combination products

If you receive SSI and/or SSDI, chances are you qualify for EN services under the Ticket to Work program. Other ways of saying this are you a

.

As there is an increasing trend of the combination products companies manufacturing such products should be able to tackle the problems involved in the de

e ‘eligible for a Ticket’ or you are a ‘Ticket holder’. To find out if you’re eligible, call Maximus (the name of the organization that manag

elopment. They need to be wiser in analyzing the market trends and the regulatory requirements.

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

es Social Security’s Ticket program) toll-free at 1-866-968-7842. A representative will tell you whether or not you are eligible for a Ticket

tion in industry events and feedback to regulatory authorities would be able to face the challenges and will be successful in developing combination products

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