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  • Prescription affordability: Assistance Options for Anticoagulants

    Beth Waldron writes (Last updated May 7, 2020) There is help available for many people who can’t afford their anticoagulant (blood thinning) medication. Many pharmaceutical companies provide free or discounted medicines through prescription assistance programs, also called PAPs. Each program is administered by the pharmaceutical company and has its own qualifying criteria. We are unaware…

  • Prescription assistance: when you can’t afford a medication

    Beth Waldron, Program Director of the Clot Connect project, writes…. Approximately 1 in 5 people don’t take a medication a doctor has prescribed because they can’t afford to pay for it [ref 1].  While the cost of some outpatient “blood thinning” therapies (anticoagulants) can be substantial, failure to take a blood thinning medication as prescribed…

  • Prescription Assistance: When Patients Can’t Afford a Medication

    Beth Waldron, Program Director of the Clot Connect project, writes…. While the cost of some outpatient anticoagulation therapies can be substantial, failure to take an anticoagulant medication as prescribed can have serious, even deadly, consequences.   Links to resources which may help patients when they are prescribed an anticoagulant that they cannot afford is available in this article.…