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I am not sure why but some Patient Assistance Programs( or "PAP's" ) do have certain requirements that we must meet in order to get help....some make no sense to me! *H*&*P* juls

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No Medicare Patients may apply for PAPs

American Regent

Axcan

Biogen

Boehringer Ingleheim

Cangene

Celgene

Centocor (For off-label use, Medicare beneficiaries may still apply.)

Cephalon

Dermik

Eisai

First Horizon

IVAX

MedImmune

Millenium

Mylan

Novo-Nordisk

PDL Biopharm

Purdue

Salix

Savient

Scios

Takeda

Teva/Gate

Watson

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Medicare Patients without a Part D plan may apply for PAPs

Alcon

Allergan

Amgen (Part D see below)

Amylin

Astellas Pharma (Part D see below)

Bayer

Berlex

Biovail

Bradley Pharmaceuticals
Bristol Myer Squibb

Daiichi Sankyo
Duramed

Eli Lilly (Part D see below)

Endo

Enzon

ESP

Forest

Galderma

Genentech

Genzyme (Part D see below)

Graceway

Intermune

King

MedPointe

MGI
NitroMed

Ortho-Biotech (Part D see below)

Reckett Benckiser

Reliant

Roche (Part D see below)

Sanofi-Aventis

Serono

Shire (Part D see below)

Solvay

TAP (Part D see below)

UCB

Upsher-Smith

Valeant (Part D see below)
Vistakon

All Medicare Patients may apply for PAPs :

Abbott *

Alpharma

AstraZeneca-Part D enrollees use AZ Medicines & Me

Berlex/Beta Seron Fnd. (Cannot be LIS eligible)

Chiron/TOBI - Part D enrollees may be eligible for product or co-pay assistance

Digestive Care

Eytech

Gilead*

GlaxoSmithKline-Part D enrollees use GSK Access program

Johnson & Johnson*

Merck**

Merck/Schering Plough **

NABI (Cannot be LIS eligible)

Novartis

Pfizer* (Some medications may not be available to Part D enrollees)

Procter & Gamble (Cannot be LIS eligible)

Schering-Plough
Wyeth (Part D enrollees must submit a hardship letter or LIS denial letter)

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Medicare Part D patients may apply for selected medications :

Amgen- Sensipar and Enbrel only

Astellas Pharma - Prograf and Vaprisol only

Eli Lilly - Zyprexa, Forteo and Humatrope only

Genzyme - Renagel only through Renagel Part D PAP

Ortho-Biotech - Only if drugs not in patient's Part D plan

Roche - Only if drugs not in patient's Part D plan

Shire - Fosrenol, only if drug not in patient's Part D plan

TAP - Prevacid Only

Valeant - Only if drugs not in patient's Part D plan; Part D enrollees ineligible for Infergen PAP

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LIS = Low-Income Subsidy within Part D

*Will consider allowing some Part D enrollees to apply for PAP's you must contact the companies for more information.

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