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Last year Abbot helped over 100,000 people across the nation by providing them with free prescription medications. The company is committed to providing Abbott prescriptions drugs and products to patients who are experiencing a financial hardship or crisis. The program will provide these individuals with medications if they can’t access treatment through meaningful health care coverage from any other source.
The primary goal of the program is to ensure as many people as possible gain access to Abbott’s pharmaceutical, nutritional and medical technologies. However, in addition, the company wants to ensure they continue to deliver high quality customer service and patient assistance services to the patients that need free medications from the programs.
Financial eligibility is based upon current Federal Poverty Guidelines adjusted for household size. If a patient's medication cost is reimbursed by a private or public insurance program (including Medicaid and Medicare Part D plans), the patient may generally not be eligible for assistance through the Abbott Patient Assistance Foundation. However, the Abbott Patient Assistance Foundation recognizes that extenuating circumstances may exist and encourages any patient to request consideration for an exception if, despite existing prescription insurance coverage, he or she cannot pay for needed medication. All such requests will be considered or reconsidered on a case-by-case basis.
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A couple key criteria will determine eligibility. They include household income as well as the applicants current health insurance coverage.
There can be exceptions made in certain cases. The Abbott Patient Assistance Foundation, which administers the program, realizes that from time to time extenuating circumstances may exist with a certain applicant. In these cases they will encourage any patient to request consideration for an exception to some of the above criteria or conditions if, despite already having existing prescription insurance coverage, the applicant can’t pay for medication that they need to address their condition. All such requests for exceptions will be considered or reconsidered on a case-by-case basis by Abbot.
There are several different prescription drugs offered for free by Abbot. The list can also change without notice, so be sure to call for the latest information. However, some of the medications covered include.
The number to dial to get more information, or to apply for the Abbot prescription program, is 1-(800) 222-6885
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