One of the most popular sections of the NeedyMeds website is our listing of Free, Low-Cost, and Sliding-Scale clinics. As health care has become more and more expensive, the need for low-cost health care has increased. Many people living in more rural parts of the country have a very limited number of options to see …
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Introducing HealthWeb Navigator
This blog originally appeared on HealthWeb Navigator, a new site by NeedyMeds. It has reviews of health-related websites to help you find the best, most medically reliable information. You can see the beta version of HealthWeb Navigator at www.healthwebnav.org. What is HealthWeb Navigator and How Does It Work? HealthWeb Navigator (HWN) directs you …
Patient Assistance Programs (PAPs)
NeedyMeds was started in 1997 when a family physician and a medical social worker realized there were dozens of pharmaceutical patient assistance programs available, providing medications to those in need at low- or no cost, but no centralized resource for the information. We became that resource, using the relatively new Internet as the perfect medium …
Insurers Drop Expensive Medications
It is no secret that drug prices continue to be a problem in the United States. In a previous blog post, we discussed the environment in which skyrocketing drug prices are allowed to take off. It has continued to be an important subject to Americans and the ongoing presidential campaigns. The growing issue of medications …
How to Find the Best Prices for Prescriptions
We are almost to 2016, and the high costs of prescriptions are still a huge problem for millions of Americans. Despite laws like the Affordable Care Act (ACA), drug prices continue to vary and rise in ways that are often too much for patients to navigate. A recent poll found that a third of those …