About the FamilyWize Prescription Drug Discount Card

 

Now you can get your own FREE FamilyWize® prescription discount card at United Way of Inner Wisconsin! Anyone can use it; you don’t have to apply, qualify or wait for a card to come in the mail. Simply download your own copy by clicking here, or stop by the United Way office to pick one up. You can also clip one out from the “Help for Hard Times Guide.”

• The FamilyWize® cards enables people to receive discounted pricing on prescription drugs. It can offer immediate savings on prescription drugs at participating pharmacies for people that have no health insurance; or for prescription medicine not covered by health insurance, Medicare or other benefit plans. This is not health insurance, nor is it intended to replace insurance. Anyone can use it; there are no age or income restrictions.
• Simply present the FamilyWize® card with each prescription at a participating pharmacy at the time of purchase. Your cost will be the discount price with the FamilyWize® card, or the pharmacy’s usual and customary retail price, whichever is lower. You can save an average of up to 30% or more.
• The goal of the FamilyWize® partnerships is to reduce the cost of medicine by $100 million. The savings is provided by the 53,000+ participating pharmacies that have agreed voluntarily to accept prices that are close to the prices they make available to large insurance companies and employers. To learn more, visit www.familywize.org.

 

Local Statistics:

• So far in South Wood County, residents saved $14,261, or 28%, by using the FamilyWize Prescription Drug Discount Card! (results as of July 20, 2010)