Help with managing your drug costs

Don't let the price of prescription drugs prevent you from taking good care of yourself.

Everyone has heard stories about people cutting their pills in half, reducing their dosages to every other day or stopping their prescriptions all together. This is dangerous, especially if you're on a daily drug for asthma, diabetes, high blood pressure or other chronic condition.

Save money safely

• Ask your doctor if you can use generic drugs instead of brand-name drugs. Then, next time you drop off a prescription, ask the pharmacist if a generic is available.
• Learn more about generics on this website.
• Calculate how much you could save using our generics drug calculator.
• Enter your drug name in the calculator now.
• If your prescription isn't available as a generic, try contacting the drug manufacturer to ask about rebates, coupons or other discounts.

• Make sure your prescription is covered by your prescription plan. If it's not, ask your doctor whether another drug could be equally effective.
  Check the Priority Health online approved drug list for your drug now.
• Use the MichiganDrugPrices.com website. It compares prices for 150 different drugs at many different pharmacies to help you find the best prices, including many medications for as little as $4 for a 30-day supply.
  Go to michigandrugprices.com now.
• Dial 211 from your land line or cell phone to reach United Way of Michigan. Their 2-1-1 service is the health and human service equivalent of 9-1-1.

Find prescription payment help at these websites

• RX Assist
  http://www.rxassist.org/
• UNA Rx card
  http://unarxcard.com/index.php
• Free Medicine Foundation
  http://www.freemedicinefoundation.com
• Partnership for Prescription Assistance
  http://www.pparx.org/
• Needy Meds 
  http://www.needymeds.org/
• Access2Wellness
  http://www.access2wellness.com