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Article: Five Prescription Drug Manufacturers Deliver Additional Savings to Low-Income Medicare Beneficiaries Using Pharmacy Care Alliance Discount Card.
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- PR Newswire
- Article date:
- June 4, 2004
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ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 /PRNewswire/ -- The Pharmacy Care Alliance (PCA) today announced that AstraZeneca, Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Companies, Inc., Eli Lilly and Company, Merck and Novartis will make many prescription drugs available to qualifying PCA Medicare discount cardholders free of charges from the manufacturer plus a nominal amount to cover dispensing, processing and other costs.
A PCA cardholder whose income is 135 percent or less of the federal poverty level and who qualifies for the federal government's $600 annual prescription drug purchase credit will receive the additional savings after he or she has fully depleted their $600 credit.
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