Financial/Patient Assistance

Financial Assistance Programs Help Ease Prescription Costs
If you have patients with limited resources who are facing overwhelming expenses for prescription medications, we encourage you to help them explore several available assistance options. Below you’ll find links to Web sites ranging from financial assistance to free-of-charge medications.

The services are free of charge. To apply, patients need to be prepared to offer personal financial information (such as their most recent tax return) and to have you verify their prescriptions.

If a specific medication is needed, they can also check with the manufacturer to see if they offer an assistance program. Many drug companies offer their medications at a discount or free to those who show they can’t afford them.

BenefitsCheckUp - A Service of the National Council on the Aging
Helps find programs for people ages 55 and over who may pay for some of their prescription drug costs, health care, utilities, and other essential items or services. A service of the National Counsel On the Aging.

Helping Patients
The Partnership for Prescription Assistance brings together pharmaceutical companies, physicians, patient advocacy organizations and civic groups under one umbrella to help low-income, uninsured patients get free or nearly free brand name medications. This site offers a single access point for more than 275 public and private patient assistance programs, including more than 150 offered by pharmaceutical companies.

Medicare Prescription Drug and Other Assistance Programs
Provides information on public and private programs that offer discounted or free medication, as well as Medicare health plans that include prescription coverage. This site also gives information about various prescription drug card programs.

Needy Meds
Gives information about patient assistance programs that provide no-cost prescription medications to eligible participants.

Rx Outreach
A new patient assistance program developed to provide qualified low-income individuals and families with access to generic versions of brand name medications.

Together Rx Access™
This free program offers savings for over 275 medications to qualified low-income patients, who are not eligible for Medicare and have no prescription medication benefits.

Together Rx™
Through this free program, Medicare beneficiaries without prescription coverage can receive savings on their medications. The program is designed to help seniors until the Medicare prescription benefit takes effect.