Prescription Drug Assistance Card Programs

 

Requirements:  Medicare eligible.  No other prescription drug coverage.

 

 

 

Company

 

Annual Income

 

Discount/Fees

 

Covered Drugs

 

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Pfizer Share Card

 

Individual - $18,000

Household - $24,000

 

Patients pay a $15 fee for each 30-day supply of a Pfizer prescription medication at participating pharmacies.

 

 

All Pfizer outpatient prescription drugs.

 

1-800-717-6005

 

www.pfizersharecard.com

 

Lilly Answers Card

 

Individual - $18,000

Household - $24,000

 

Patients pay a $12 fee for each 30-day supply of a Lilly prescription medication at participating pharmacies.

 

 

All Lilly outpatient prescription drugs.

 

1-877-795-4559

 

www.lillyanswers.com

 

Together Rx

(includes  Abbott Laboratories, AstraZeneca, Aventis Pharmaceuticals Inc., Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. GlaxoSmithKline, Janssen Pharmaceutica Prod.,L.P., Novartis, Ortho-McNeil Pharmaceutical, Inc., Care Cards,)

 

Individual - $28,000

Household - $38,000

 

Approximately 20-40% off retail prices.  Each company sets its own level of savings independently with a minimum discount of 15% off its list price to wholesalers.  Actual consumer savings will vary.

 

 

Together Rx maintains a list of more than 150 covered drugs manufactured by participating companies.

 

 

1-800-865-7211

 

www.together-rx.com

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Prescription Drug Assistance Programs

 

For Seniors and Low Income Individuals with no RX drug benefits

 

 

Company

 

Annual Income

 

Discount/Fees

 

Covered Drugs

 

For More Information

 

IMCI

(Independent Medication Consultants, Inc.)

 

Customers who are ineligible, as well as those who are eligible, for pharmaceutical Patient Assistance Programs (PAPs).

 

IMCI officials consider all cost reduction options, consult with the customer, prepare written consultations for the customer’s physician(s), and focus upon coordinating and simplifying the optimum medication cost reduction initiatives for each specific customer and his/her physician(s).

 

Experienced IMCI pharmacists make appropriate evidence based cost reduction recommendations that are acceptable to customers and physicians.

 

1-859-594-4624

 

www.rxcostsavings.com

 

Merck Medco

 

Individual - $18,000

Couple - $24,000

Family/4 -  $35,000

 

 

Your doctor must fill out, sign, and date an application and include his or her state license number.  Medicines distributed through the Merck Patient Assistance Program are free of charge to all eligible patients.

 

Most Merck products.

 

1-800-727-5400

 

www.merck.com

 

 

Pfizer Connection to Care Program

 

 

Individual - $16,000

Couple - $25,000 or  less

 

Physicians must attach an original signed prescription; Physicians need to provide their DEA and/or state license number; Physicians must sign the application form.

 

25 of Pfizer’s medications including Lipitor, Zoloft, & Norvasc

 

1-800-707-8990

 

PhRMA

(Pharmaceutical Research & Manufacturers of America)

 

 

An interactive Web site was designed to help find patient assistance programs for which you may qualify.

 

PhRMA and 48 of its member companies provide prescription drug medicines free of charge to patients of all ages who may not otherwise have access to these necessary medicines.

 

Directs patients to the patient assistance program that will best serve them.

 

www.helpingpatients.org

 

 

Roche

 

Roche provides drugs for patients who lack prescription coverage and the means to pay for the medications they need.

 

A qualified patient may enroll through his or her doctor and Roche will ship the prescription directly to the doctor's office, usually within 48 hours.

 

Roche provides more than 35 medications in major therapeutic areas.

 

 

 

1-877-757-6243

 

www.rocheusa.com

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