MedHelp Maine’s Solution

Community-based prescription assistance programs, with trained personnel devoted solely to prescription assistance work, not only identify the best source of help for an individual. They also complete initial and renewal applications on behalf of both the patient and the medical practitioner, and, through database management, ensure continuous therapy by processing timely requests for medication refills for those receiving free medications from the drug company patient assistance programs.

The efforts of such programs bring out such immediate results as:

• Greater compliance with recommended medication therapy
• Healthier individuals with better managed chronic disease
• Greater income available to low-income patients who may then require less social service intervention
• Fewer physician visits, emergency room admissions, and hospitalizations needed because of medication noncompliance

At no cost to non-profit organizations interested in developing prescription assistance programs, MedHelp Maine will provide guidance in program start-up, identification of funding opportunities for both initial operations and sustainability, staffing, database management, and community outreach.