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Drug Costs - Drug Expenses - How To Lower Your Prescription Drug Costs

Drug costs are a big expense for arthritis patients. A major part of the treatment regimen for arthritis is medication. Prescription drug prices continue to be a key factor in the escalating cost of health care. Learn more about lowering your prescription drug costs.
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  3. Medicare / Medicaid
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Medicare 2006: Medicare Prescription Drug Coverage / Drug Cards
Starting January 1, 2006 Medicare prescription drug coverage will be in effect. Private companies will offer Medicare prescription drug cards.

10 Tips For Slashing Prescription Drug Costs
Tips for controlling soaring prescription drug costs.

Is Your Internet Order Really Coming From A Canada Pharmacy?
Canada pharmacy Internet sites claim they offer less expensive drugs which are safe and of comparable quality. Can you really be sure what you're getting? The FDA's Operation Bait and Switch revealed important information.

Online Pharmacy - Convenient Cost Cutter?
The exorbitant cost of the new arthritis drugs have people scurrying around looking for cost-cutting alternatives.  Are online pharmacies the answer?

Online Pharmacies: Safe Or Sorry?
Following an episode of "ER" the U.S. Pharmacopeia has issued some common sense guidelines for people considering use of an online pharmacy.

Canada Drugs: To Buy or Not to Buy?
It's a crisis situation to need medications and not be able to afford them. It has driven many people to look outside the United States for solutions, with Canadian pharmacies as a popular destination. The FDA warns us about the potential risk of buying drugs from other countries.

Borderline Drugs
Americans have been crossing the border into Mexico and Canada to buy their prescription drugs for many years, but the soaring cost of drugs in the U.S. has stirred new interest in border bargains.

Assistance Programs for Arthritis Drugs
The cost of arthritis drugs make them inaccessible to those with low income or no insurance, but help is available through assistance programs.

Pill Splitting Could Help You Cut Drug Costs
It's no secret that the cost of prescription drugs is getting out of hand. Even people lucky enough to have drug coverage find that their monthly copays can run into the hundreds of dollars each month. Pill splitting may be a way to cut those copays in half. Many drug insurances and employers are promoting pill splitting.

Coupons For Prescription Drugs
Why drug companies are offering coupons, and where you can get them.

Partners for Prescription Assistance (PPA)
PPA offers help finding medications when you can't afford them. PPA is a single point of access to more than 275 patient assistance programs. The PPA Web site is very user-friendly with three paths that can be followed to obtain information; a different path for patients, caregivers, and prescribers.

Buying Medical Products Online
Research the product and the company selling it before you buy.

Eli Lilly Offers "LillyAnswers" Patient Drug Assistance Program
The LillyAnswers program concluded May 15, 2006, but may be extended until December 31, 2006 for some patients. A new program called "LillyMedicareAnswers" is expected to become available by early 2007.

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