If you’ve recently lost your job or health insurance or can’t afford your prescriptions, pharmaceutical companies want to help you and your family gets the medications you need by offering free or discounted drugs from…
* Pfizer (including Lipitor, Celebrex and Xanax): You may qualify for free prescriptions if you’re uninsured with no prescription drug coverage, have become unemployed on or after January 1, 2009 and have taken a Pfizer medication for at least three months prior to losing your job. To apply, call 866-706-2400 or log onto pfizerhelpfulanswers.com.
* AzstraZeneca (including Crestor, Nexium and Seroquel): Under the AZ&Me program, uninsured patients can receive free or low cost drugs if they make less than $30,000 a year as an individual or less than $60,000 a year as a family. To apply, log onto astrazeneca-us.com/help-affording-your-medicines.
* Merck (including Singulair, Januvia and Maxalt): You may qualify to receive free medications if don’t have health insurance and you have a household income of $43,320 or less for individuals, $58,280 or less for couples, or $88,200 or less for a family of four. To apply, call 800-727-5400 or log onto merck.com/merckhelps.
Also try: The Partnership for Prescription Assistance, 888-4PPA-NOW, which can help qualified patients get over 2,500 free or discounted medications.
[photo credit: Amanda H Hatfield]
