Is there a service in Texas that would pay for insulin and other diabetes related medications?
I have a friend who lives with her son. She is diabetic, and does odd jobs to pay for her insulin. She has other diabetes related conditions, but cannot afford the medications. She does not seem to qualify for medicaid or medicare. Are there any programs available to help her?
Yes, most pharmaceutical companies offer Patient Assistance Programs (or some have names for their own programs) that provide their medications for free to needy patients. She needs to contact the programs (look online by each drug company for each med she needs, or she needs to ask her doctor to help). The companies send forms to fill out. They want proof of income (copy of taxes, W-2's, or other proof of how she's paying for rent, food & bills) and a prescription, and usually a doctor must sign them. It's a little work, but patients usually are approved for a year and get their meds in 3-month supplies.
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December 24th, 2008 at 10:16 am
Yes, most pharmaceutical companies offer Patient Assistance Programs (or some have names for their own programs) that provide their medications for free to needy patients. She needs to contact the programs (look online by each drug company for each med she needs, or she needs to ask her doctor to help). The companies send forms to fill out. They want proof of income (copy of taxes, W-2's, or other proof of how she's paying for rent, food & bills) and a prescription, and usually a doctor must sign them. It's a little work, but patients usually are approved for a year and get their meds in 3-month supplies.
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RN
December 24th, 2008 at 10:32 am
All the information on pharmaceutical patient assistance programs plus hundreds of other programs is available for free at http://www.needymeds.org. Each workday over 9,500 people visit our site. We have all the applications on the website.
Our information is ease to access, updated regularly, and free. We gather no information about our users.
You don’t have to pay to apply to these programs. Most are easy to apply to and respond quickly.
Rich Sagall, MD
President
NeedyMeds.com, Inc.
P.O. Box 219
Gloucester, MA 01931
richsagall@needymeds.org