What is the Partnership for Prescription Assistance

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What is the Partnership for Prescription
Assistance?

• The Partnership offers a single point of access
  to more than 475 public and private patient
  assistance programs, covering over 2,500
  prescription medicines.
• The Partnership for Prescription Assistance
  brings together many partners to help low-income,
  uninsured patients get free or nearly free
  medicines, including
• Americas Pharmaceutical Companies
• Health Care Providers
• Patient Advocacy Organizations
• Civic Groups
• The Partnership is dedicated to increasing
  awareness of and enrollment in existing patient
  assistance programs for those who may be eligible.

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Partnership for Prescription Assistance of
VIRGINA

• Partnership for Prescription Assistance is a
  national program with state chapters Virginia
  has a state chapter.
• The Virginia chapter was launched in August of
  2005.
• The Virginia chapter has 27 Partners including

ALS Association of DC/ MD/ VA American Cancer
Society South Atlantic Division, Inc. American
Lung Association of Virginia Blue Ridge
Independent Living Center Catholic Charities of
Central Virginia CrossOver Ministries Diabetes
Management of Mary Washington Epilepsy
Foundation of Virginia Fan Free Clinic
Fredericksburg Christian Health Center
Lupus Foundation of Greater Washington Lupus
Foundation of Virginia Lupus Foundation of the
Tri Cities Medical Society of Virginia
Multiple Sclerosis Society Central Virginia
National Capital Asthma Coalition
Northern Virginia Medical Society Richmond
Enhancing Access to Community Healthcare Rx
Partnership Senior Navigator United Way of
Greater Richmond and Petersburg Virginia
Association of Free Clinics Virginia
Biotechnology Association Virginia Center on
Aging Virginia Commonwealth University Health
Systems Virginia Manufacturers Association
Virginia Pharmacists Association Virginia
Primary Care Association Virginia Quality
Healthcare Network
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Virginians are Using PPA

• IN VIRGINIA
• 76,351 Virginians have contacted Partnership for
  Prescription Assistance
• 61,283 of the Virginians who called were matched
  with a patient assistance program
• 80 were helped

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How to find out if you Qualify

• Visit the PPA Website www.pparxva.org
• Call the toll free number 1-888 - 4PPA NOW
  (1-888-477-2669)
• Each program has its own qualification
  guidelines. Most programs help those who
• Do not have prescription drug coverage
• Fall below 200 of the federal poverty level
  (19,500 for a single person and 33, 200 for a
  family of three)

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What you will Need when you go Online or Call

• When you call or go online you will be asked a
  series of questions including
• Age
• State of residence and Zip Code
• Estimated gross annual household income
• Number of people living in your household
• Names of the medicines that you have been taking
  or have been prescribed
• If applicable the type of health insurance and/or
  prescription coverage eligibility

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The Web Site
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Help is Here Express

• Help Is Here Express is a national bus tour to
  help bring PPA into communities in Virginia to
• provide individuals with access to the tools
  needed to enroll
• increase awareness of the program through the
  media
• give individuals the opportunity to talk
  personally with a trained specialist

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The Help is Here Express Tour through Virginia

• October, 2005
• Roanoke
• Charlottesville
• Alexandria
• March, 2006
• Richmond
• Charlottesville
• Lexington
• Harrisonburg
• Roanoke
• Christiansburg

• June, 2006
• Portsmouth
• October, 2006
• Arlington
• Fredericksburg
• Richmond
• Harrisonburg

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For more information about PPA
www.pparxva.org 1-888-477-2669
Partnership for Prescription Assistance of
Virginia Rob Jones 9 S 12 Street Richmond, VA
23219 [phone] rob_at_alliancegroupltd.com