For many Connecticut residents, their prescription medication not only keeps them healthy, but it is also what keeps them alive. Everyone knows how high the cost of medications can be and even with insurance there are co-pays, and only a percentage of your prescription may be covered. Ripple understands the importance of maintaining a suitable supply of these medications to meet your needs. Below are resources that may be able to help if you are having trouble covering the costs of your prescribed medications.
HUSKY Health offers coverage to eligible children, parents, relative caregivers, elders, individuals with disabilities, adults without dependent children, and pregnant women. In Connecticut, HUSKY Health encompasses Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program.
As administering agency, the Department of Social Services partners with Access Health CT, our state’s health insurance marketplace, in HUSKY Health enrollment. HUSKY Health provides a comprehensive health care benefit package, including preventive care, primary care and specialist visits, hospital care, behavioral health services, dental services, and prescription medications.
1-877-CT-HUSKY (1-877-284-8759)
AstraZeneca: AZ&Me™ is designed to help qualifying people without insurance and those on Medicare who are having trouble affording their AstraZeneca medications. Click here to review the list of medicines available through this program.
• There is NO cost to sign up for the program.
• Once enrolled, you remain enrolled for up to one year.
• At the end of that year you can reapply.
• Medicines are mailed to the patient’s home or physician’s office.
Click here to find out if you may be eligible for the program.
The EpiPen Savings Card® can provide you up to $300 in savings* for each EpiPen 2-Pak® carton per prescription refill. You can print the savings offer from your computer or store it on your smartphone and present it to your pharmacist. The EpiPen Savings Card® helps eligible patients who have commercial health insurance save on out-of-pocket costs. Just present your card at the pharmacy each time you drop off or refill your prescription. The EpiPen Savings Card® is reusable for up to six EpiPen 2-Pak® cartons so you can have EpiPen® Auto-Injectors available in different locations. Click here to see if you are eligible
FamilyWize.org: has been dedicated to helping improve the health and well-being of individuals, families and communities through meaningful community service partnerships. Our Mission is to Improve people’s lives by providing access to affordable prescription medications.
Trust, transparency and simplicity are the cornerstones of how we help improve people’s lives. We believe that everyone has a fundamental right to quality, accessible and affordable healthcare, and that no one should ever have to choose between their health and other basic needs, regardless of economic circumstances, age, race, religion, ethnicity or sexual orientation.
Location: Statewide Access
Genentech and Novartis (Xolair): There may be options to help you afford your XOLAIR, no matter what type of health insurance you have. Use our Patient Assistance Tool to find out which assistance option might be right for you. If you need help with the co-pay for your Genentech medicine, XOLAIR Access Solutions can refer you to an independent co-pay assistance foundation. Independent co-pay assistance foundations help patients with public or commercial health insurance.
Location: Statewide Access
GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) (ADVAIR®, Flovent®, Serevent®, Ventolin®) If you’re without prescription medicine coverage and need help paying for your GSK medicine or vaccine, let GSKForYou guide you to a patient assistance program that may be right for you. This site will direct you to information about GSK patient assistance programs that you may qualify for. Once enrolled, you’ll be eligible to receive free medicines through the mail or vaccine administered by your healthcare provider
For a prescription medicine, you must:
- Live in one of the 50 states, District of Columbia or Puerto Rico
- Have no prescription drug benefits through any insurer/payer/program
- Not be eligible for Puerto Rico’s Government Health Plan Mi Salud or have applied and been denied
- Meet certain income eligibility requirements
Location: Statewide Access
GoodRx.com: The team at GoodRx strives every day to bring you reliable, accurate and trustworthy information about prescription drugs and health.We know drug prices are too high. And we want to help. We gather prices for more than 70,000 pharmacies across the U.S. to bring you up-to-date information about what drugs cost and how you can save.
Location: Statewide Access
The Connecticut AIDS Drug Assistance Program: provides eligible low-income residents with essential medications for the treatment of HIV, related conditions, and other co-morbidities, as well as health insurance premium assistance.
Location: Statewide Access
MedicineAssistanceTool.org: PhRMA’s Medicine Assistance Tool (MAT) is a search engine designed to help patients, caregivers and health care providers learn more about the resources available through the various biopharmaceutical industry programs. MAT is not its own patient assistance program, but rather a search engine for many of the patience assistance resources that the biopharmaceutical industry offers.
Location: Statewide Access
Merck Helps™ (Asmanex®, Dulera®, Nasonex, Proventil®, Singulair® and more) At Merck, we believe that no one should go without the medicines or vaccines they need.
That is why the company provides certain medicines and adult vaccines for free to people who do not have prescription drug or health insurance coverage and who, without our assistance, cannot afford their Merck medicine and vaccines. This is consistent with Merck’s long-held values and traditions of putting patients first.
If you or someone you know needs help paying for medicines or adult vaccines, the Merck Patient Assistance Program, Inc., may be able to help.
NeedyMeds.org is a 501(c)(3) national non-profit information resource dedicated to helping people locate assistance programs to help them afford their medications and other healthcare costs. NeedyMeds is funded by small grants, donations, sponsorships, subscriptions to PAPTracker, and syndication of some of our database information. NeedyMeds also works with the patient assistance programs of several pharmaceutical distributors.
Location: Statewide Access
Pfizer RxPathways: connects eligible patients to a range of assistance programs that offer insurance support, co-pay help,* and medicines for free or at a savings. Enter the name of the medicine you’ve been prescribed. You can search one medicine at a time. Then answer a few questions to see which available program(s) may be right for you.
The Pfizer Savings Program is not health insurance. For more information, please call the toll-free number 1-866-706-2400. There are no membership fees to participate in this program. Estimated savings range from 36% to 75% and depend on such factors as the particular drug purchased, amount purchased, and the pharmacy where purchased.
RXassist.org – Patient Assistance Program Center: Patient assistance programs are run by pharmaceutical companies to provide free medications to people who cannot afford to buy their medicine. RxAssist offers a comprehensive database of these patient assistance programs, as well as practical tools, news, and articles so that health care professionals and patients can find the information they need. All in one place.
Location: Statewide Access
RxOutreach.org: is a fully-licensed nonprofit mail order pharmacy. We believe that everyone deserves access to affordable medications. No one should ever have to choose between filling a prescription and feeding their family. That’s why Rx Outreach exists, and why our team is so passionate about the work we do.
Location: Statewide Access
Teva Pharmaceuticals (QVAR®) Teva Cares Foundation is a group of patient assistance programs created to help improve patient access to Teva medications and help address cost barriers to treatments. Last year Teva helped hundreds of patients obtain Teva medications in a variety of therapeutic areas. Teva is committed to providing certain Teva medications at no cost to patients in the United States who meet certain insurance and income criteria.
Walmart $4 Prescriptions Program : Prescription Program includes up to a 30-day supply for $4 and a 90-day supply for $10 of some covered generic drugs at commonly prescribed dosages. Higher dosages cost more. Prices for some drugs covered by the Prescription Program may be higher or vary in some states, including, but not necessarily limited to, CA and MN. For important information regarding Walmart’s Patient accessibility program, including the availability of language interpretive services, please see the last page of the Drug List.
Over 30 Locations in Connecticut, please contact your local store for more details.
