How To Save On Prescription Drugs

If you want to save up to 50, 70, even 90% on your prescription drug costs, this is the book you need. Stephen S. S. Hyde, founder of Hyde Rx Services Corporation, is the leading authority on low-cost prescription drug benefits, and now he’s offering individual consumers the expertise he provides to America’s employers and health plans. With the simple, cost-saving techniques outlined in this revolutionary book, you can save literally hundreds, even thousands of dollars on your family’s prescription medications. You’ll discover: • The seven questions you should ask your doctor before he writes a prescription • How your pharmacist can save you money • How to get FREE prescription drugs • How to save on generic, over-the-counter, and brand-name drugs • How to get the lowest prices from retail, mail-order, online, and Canadian pharmacies • How you may be eligible for discount cards and other assistance programs • A Special Seniors Medicare Drug Benefit Report, and much more! With an appendix of directories, pharmacies, and websites to get you started, this book will pay for itself with your very first prescription!

With the pharmaceutical industry spending $8 billion per year on direct marketing to physicians, everyone winds up paying the bill through escalating prescription costs. This handbook gives patients the tools they need to become informed consumers and work with their doctors to reduce their prescription drug regimen expenses. Providing useful tips like eliminating unnecessary medications, resisting samples, substituting generic drugs, and splitting higher-dose tablets, physician Edward Jardini helps patients take charge of their own health, prescriptions, and wallets.

Because millions of them cannot afford the prescription drugs they desperately need, seniors and the uninsured poor and disabled are the main focus of this book. This book shows qualified persons the many programs available and how they can obtain free, low-cost, or discounted medications from a variety of these public and private sources. This book is also a "must read" for all patients who require prescription drug therapy whether they are uninsured, under-insured or fully insured to help them maximize the value of the prescription medications they get. This valuable information can be helpful to all of these patients, their doctors and other health-care providers, as well as their other care-givers. Included in this book are numerous tips to help patients save hundreds, even thousands, of dollars in prescription drug costs yearly.

This is an essential resource that enables the uninsured to save thousands ofdollars on medications.

Thanks to remarkable advances in modern health care attributable to science, engineering, and medicine, it is now possible to cure or manage illnesses that were long deemed untreatable. At the same time, however, the United States is facing the vexing challenge of a seemingly uncontrolled rise in the cost of health care. Total medical expenditures are rapidly approaching 20 percent of the gross domestic product and are crowding out other priorities of national importance. The use of increasingly expensive prescription drugs is a significant part of this problem, making the cost of biopharmaceuticals a serious national concern with broad political implications. Especially with the highly visible and very large price increases for prescription drugs that have occurred in recent years, finding a way to make prescription medicinesâ€"and health care at largeâ€"more affordable for everyone has become a socioeconomic imperative. Affordability is a complex function of factors, including not just the prices of the drugs themselves, but also the details of an individual's insurance coverage and the number of medical conditions that an individual or family confronts. Therefore, any solution to the affordability issue will require considering all of these factors together. The current high and increasing costs of prescription drugsâ€"coupled with the broader trends in overall health care costsâ€"is unsustainable to society as a whole. Making Medicines Affordable examines patient access to affordable and effective therapies, with emphasis on drug pricing, inflation in the cost of drugs, and insurance design. This report explores structural and policy factors influencing drug pricing, drug access programs, the emerging role of comparative effectiveness assessments in payment policies, changing finances of medical practice with regard to drug costs and reimbursement, and measures to prevent drug shortages and foster continued innovation in drug development. It makes recommendations for policy actions that could address drug price trends, improve patient access to affordable and effective treatments, and encourage innovations that address significant needs in health care.

Every day, thousands of Americans worry about increasing prescription costs and how they are going to pay for their medications. In some cases, they have to choose between groceries and medications. To make matters worse, often medical bills are not covered by insurance or people do not have medical insurance because they cannot afford it. Diana Loera delves into the often hidden tips and shortcuts to reduce or even eliminate prescription costs. She also includes advice on how to handle uncovered medical bills. If you or a loved one are facing rising medication costs or are simply tired of having to cut back on other things to afford medications, you may find a solution in this book. If, like thousands of Americans, you are dealing with the stress of unpaid medical bills due to not having insurance or insurance refusing to cover even the most basic things, this book may give you some insight on what you can do to reduce your uncovered medical bills. This is not a miracle, reduce all prescriptions to zero cost book but it is a book with solid tips and an extensive resource directory of companies and foundations ready and willing to help those with various medical conditions. Even if you only find one tip in this book that lowers your prescription costs by a couple dollars a month, you are still saving money that can be used for other things. The main thing is, you have decided it is time to take action to find a way to reduce your prescription costs. This book is an easy to follow resource to help you find possible solutions.