Senior Dimensions Lowers Prescription Drug Co-Payments on Many Widely Used Brand-Name Maintenance Drugs
Posted on: Wednesday, 24 September 2008, 12:00 CDT
Senior Dimensions, a Medicare Advantage HMO Plan offered by Health Plan of Nevada (HPN), is reducing co-payments for several widely used brand-name maintenance drugs.
Effective Oct. 1, 2008, several brand-name prescriptions that currently require co-payments of $20 to $30 may be purchased for co-payments of $3 to $5. A three-month supply of these prescriptions available via mail order that previously required co-payments of $50 to $75 will have $5 to $9 co-payments, depending on the plan.
Maintenance drugs help patients with chronic illnesses manage their health, improve their quality of life and avoid costly hospital stays. Many of these prescriptions are used to treat chronic illnesses such as diabetes, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), asthma, high blood pressure and seizures.
The more widely used maintenance drugs with reduced co-pays include: Avapro and Benicar, both used to treat hypertension; Actos and Lantus, used to treat diabetes; Symbicort, used to treat COPD; and Proventil HFA, for COPD and asthma. Plan participants seeking a complete list of prescription drugs with lowered co-payments may contact their Personal Assistant at 800-650-6232 or visit www.seniordimensions.com.
"Health Plan of Nevada is reducing co-pays for many widely used maintenance drugs so that more seniors can continue their drug regimens and improve their quality of life," said Steven Evans, M.D., vice president of medical affairs and pharmacy director for HPN, a subsidiary of UnitedHealthcare. "Too often many seniors who are on a limited income put aside the drugs they need to stay healthy in order to afford gasoline, food or rent. We are taking action to ensure our Medicare Advantage customers have access to the vital prescription drugs they rely on every day."
Medicare beneficiaries enrolled in the Medicare Advantage program may consider plan options during an annual election period, which begins Nov. 15 and runs through Dec. 31, 2008, for plan selections for 2009.
About Senior Dimensions, HPN
Senior Dimensions (www.seniordimensions.com) is a Medicare Advantage Plan with a Medicare contract offered by Health Plan of Nevada Inc. In 1985, Senior Dimensions introduced the first Medicare Health Maintenance Organization (HMO) plan in Nevada. Health Plan of Nevada Inc. (www.healthplanofnevada.com) is a health maintenance organization that offers plans to employer groups, individuals and Medicare beneficiaries in Nevada.
About UnitedHealthcare
UnitedHealthcare (www.unitedhealthcare.com) provides a full spectrum of consumer-oriented health benefit plans and services to individuals, public sector employers and businesses of all sizes, including more than half of the Fortune 100 companies. The company organizes access to quality, affordable health care services on behalf of more than 25 million individual consumers, contracting directly with more than 560,000 physicians and care professionals and 4,800 hospitals to offer them broad, convenient access to services nationwide. UnitedHealthcare is one of the businesses of UnitedHealth Group (NYSE:UNH), a diversified Fortune 50 health and well-being company.
Source: Business Wire
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