Prescription Drug Discounts
- Bidil announces a 0$ Co-pay coupon for insured patients and 25$ for uninsured patients
- New Savings Card Allows Eligible Patients to Get CRESTOR for Just $8 More Than the Average Copay of a Generic Statin
- Publix Free Oral Antibiotics
- Pfizer MAINTAIN program and other assistance programs.
- Walmart 4$ Prescriptions Program
- AstraZeneca Prescription Savings Program, AZ&Me™
- The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) and NCPIE Partner to Provide Patients Medication Adherence Resources
- Needymeds – Discounts for Medications
- Partnership for Prescription Assistance – Health Clinic Finder
- Merck Patient, Prescription, Vaccine Assistance
- Trial Offer for Chantix, a smoking cessation product. (Coupon is good for only one trial offer)
- IMPORTANT DRUG WARNING ABOUT BRILINTA from AstraZeneca ( more information )
- The Dangers of Prescription Drug Abuse
- DrugDangers.com
- Drugwatch.com
- The pamphlet, Check Your Medicines: Tips for Using Medicines Safely, has been updated
Patient Assistance
- Review a set of 6 different health scenarios to see how different health conditions impact out-of-pocket costs
- Calculator to Help Patients Find the Right Health Insurance Plan
- Novartis Patient Assistance Foundation (now available in Espanol)
- Mended Hearts volunteers offer peer-to-peer support to patients, family members and caregivers
Medicare and Medicaid
- Health Insurance Marketplace info (Healthcare.gov)
- Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS.gov)
- Understanding the New Health Care Laws
- Enroll America’s mission is to ensure that all Americans are enrolled in and retain health coverage
Nutrition
- MenuStat: View nutrition information by menu item, food category, or restaurant
- Sodium and Your Health
- New Food Literacy Quiz
- Lets Move! – Learn the facts about raising healthier kids through physical activity and Nutrition
Resources
- Speak from the Heart about your Angina
- From AHRQ: Men: Stay Healthy at Any Age
- From AHRQ: Men: Stay Healthy at 50+
- From AHRQ: Women: Stay Healthy at Any Age
- From AHRQ: Women: Stay Healthy at 50+
- Info on Using Aspirin to Lower Risk of Heart Attack or Stroke (FDA)
- Health Power for Minorities
- Provides up to date FDA medical device and prescription drug recall info
- New Resource – Prescription Process Website
- High Blood Pressure Medications and You: Infographic
- Heart Talk Educational Videos
- 5 Key Questions to Ask Your Doctor from SistertoSister.org
- The Heart Truth for African American Women: An Action Plan
- View the NPHF Patient Resource Guide – Lowering the Fats in Your Blood
- Learn more about Familial hypercholesterolemia (FH)
- Leg Alert! A new educational initiative coming soon focusing of Peripheral Arterial Disease (PAD) in African Americans.
- Department of Health and Human Services: Office of Minority Health
- From the CDC and ABC: Cardiac Disease and Influenza
- Keep Your Heart Healthy – Healthfinder.gov
- Health Tips from ACP Foundation
- SeeMyHeart.org, a site dedicated to helping patients and the public better understand heart and circulation ultrasound
- The Healthy Weight Commitment Foundation
- Seconds Count – The Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions
- What you need to know, Familial Hypercholesterolemia (FH)
- Antiplatelet Therapy
- US Against Athero
- InsureKidsNow.gov
- What you need to know, High Blood Pressure
- Equity of Care
- American Heart Association
- American Stroke Association
- National Stroke Association
- American Diabetes Association
- Living with Type 2 Diabetes
- Health Power for Minorities
- National Medical Association
- National Heart, Lung, & Blood Institute
- Cardiovascular Disease Atlas
- Center for Disease Control and Prevention