Starting SPINRAZA/How to start

Help your patients begin treatment and access support for SPINRAZA

The SPINRAZA E-sign Start Form can be downloaded in Step 2. Below are the steps needed to initiate treatment. Please keep in mind these are generalized steps; because each patient has unique needs, additional steps may be required.

STEP 1

Discuss the benefits and risks of SPINRAZA with appropriate patients. Download the brochures below to help start the conversation.

Pediatric
Brochure

Information
for Adults

STEP 2

Download and/or click to complete the healthcare provider section of the Start Form to prescribe SPINRAZA and enroll your patient in support services.


E-sign Start Form

Download the Start Form (English)

Download the Start Form (Spanish)

STEP 3

Make a photocopy of your patient’s insurance and pharmacy benefit card.

STEP 4

Give your patient the Instructions and Consent Information pages of the Start Form to take home.

 

STEP 5

Send the completed Start Form and copies of the insurance/pharmacy benefit cards to Biogen by fax or email.

Fax: 1-888-538-9781

Email as an attachment: StartForm@biogen.com
Please note this email address is an unattended inbox and is for Start Forms only.

Once Biogen receives the SPINRAZA Start Form, a SPINRAZA Family Access Manager (FAM) or Lead Case Manager (LCM) will contact the patient or parent/guardian to help them navigate the process.

Remember to conduct the following laboratory tests at baseline and prior to each dose of SPINRAZA and as clinically needed:

  • Platelet count
  • Prothrombin time; activated partial thromboplastin time
  • Quantitative spot urine protein testing

Biogen takes the confidentiality of personal information seriously.

The benefits for patients of granting consent include:

  • Expediting enrollment into SMA360°™* patient
    support services from Biogen, which includes
    help in areas such as treatment logistics,
    insurance, and financial assistance
  • Giving Biogen access to the status of the
    prescription should assistance be required

*SMA360° services from Biogen are available only to those who have been prescribed SPINRAZA. SMA360° is intended for US residents only.

Questions about support
or treatment logistics?

Contact your Biogen Rare Disease Account Executive

SPINRAZA should be administered by, or under
the direction of, a specially trained healthcare
professional able to perform lumbar punctures1