Press Releases
April 17, 2007
Counties can use YourRxCard.com as an alternative
answer to recent actions by the NACO prescription drug discount plan
for counties. NACO currently charges counties for the right to distribute
the NACO free prescription drug cards to residents. www.YourRxCard.com
will offer counties a more comprehensive alternative prescription drug
discount program. read
on...
April 10, 2007
Rex Bowden Jr. of YourRxCard.com, a free prescription
drug discount card program, has recently launched a new website that will
find additional prescription drug discount vouchers, coupons and offers
at www.RxVouchers.com. Members, Patients and the Pharmaceutical Industry
can submit prescription drug discount vouchers or discount Rx Drug coupon
offers that they find and all members can use as needed the thousands of
drug discount offers free of charge. read
on...
March 20, 2007
With major retailers like Wal-Mart and Target initiating and advertising
$4 prescription programs heavily, one might think those in the “prescription
cost gap” won't need to worry as much about drug prices.
“The idea of these four-dollar prescription plans sounds great
and we congratulate the major pharmacy distributors for their initial
efforts,” notes Rex Bowden, Jr., Chief Risk Officer with www.YourRxCard.com. “Unfortunately,
experts agree that the reality isn't quite as rosy as the ads might make
it seem.”
Experts have noted that the list of drugs covered in the four-dollar-pricing
programs is limited and that claims of “over 300” medications
are overstated. University of Minnesota pharmacy professor Stephen Schondelmeyer
calculated that the Wal-Mart protocol only covered about 140 different
medications, although it did cover different dosages for many of them,
which accounts for the larger announced numbers
read
on...
March 14, 2007
High prescription drug costs for the uninsured and underinsured lead to countless unfilled prescriptions. Those unfilled prescriptions cost the nation billions of dollars, damage the quality of life for hundreds of thousands of Americans and, as a cruel irony, drive up prices even more.
A Kaiser Foundation study notes that nearly
fifteen percent of those with medical insurance have left
prescriptions unfilled because of costs concerns. The same study found
that nearly
one-third of senior citizens have left prescriptions unfilled
due to an inability to pay. These findings ar consistent with a statement
from Dispensing Solutions that notes, “The pharmacy industry currently
reports that about 30% of prescriptions written by physicians are never
filled by the patient.”
read
on... or at GenengNews.com
February 26, 2007
Many prescription drug experts and industry analysts are wary of current legislative efforts that would allow Medicare to negotiate drug prices directly with pharmaceutical manufacturers. Unintended consequences may create even bigger problems, leading some to advocate consumer-based cost-cutting measures, such as free prescription drug discount cards, instead of additional government interventions. read on...
Janurary 21, 2007
Report Releases Prescription Drug Savings Statistics for Free Prescription Drug Card Holders read on...
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