The RxHelp Patient Choice card allows consumers to remain on their brand name medicines with little or no additional cost over the generic alternative. A patient must have a valid prescription from their doctor, present it along with a corresponding RxHelp Patient Choice card to their pharmacist and request to remain on their brand. The RxHelp Patient Choice card can be used at all Canadian pharma
cies. Cards can be downloaded at RxHelp.ca or can be ordered by calling 1-866-RxHelp4 (1-866-794-3574). Patient payment assistance programs are run by many brand-name pharmaceutical manufacturers to provide significant savings on brand-name prescription medicines. RxHelp.ca connects Canadian patients to these pharmaceutical manufacturer's payment assistance programs FREE of charge. There are 3 main types of programs:
1.Patient Choice Programs - Allow the patient to remain on their brand name medicine with little or no additional cost over the generic equivalent.
2.Patient Assistance Programs - Help offset or reduce the out-of-pocket patient costs that are not covered by the patient's public or private drug plan. Some or all of the out-of-pocket patient costs will be paid by the manufacturer of the product up to a defined maximum.
3.eSample Programs - Allows the patient to receive the prescribed medication for a certain number of days at no cost to the patient, based on reasonable up-charge, mark-up and usual customary pharmacy fee.
