Pharma, interest groups sponsor cross-country Rx outreach effort

Drug Store News,  May 23, 2005  

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WASHINGION -- The pharmaceutical industry has joined with dozens of public interest groups to launch a "Help Is Here Express" cross-country bus tour to highlight a range of Big Pharma-sponsored drug assistance programs for the uninsured.

The Partnership for Prescription Assistance, a new national program to speed patient access to medicines, kicked off the tour May 4.

That program provides a single point of access to more than 275 public and private patient assistance programs, including more than 150 programs offered by drug makers. Since its launch April 5, it has matched more than 180,000 patients with patient assistance programs, according to its backers.

We are thrilled that patients are responding so strongly to the Partnership for Prescription Assistance," said Billy Tauzin, president and chief executive officer of the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America. "But we know that millions more could be helped, and that's why we are taking the message on the road."

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