Basic Needs Ministry - When to Save with the Card

The NACo card - 10-40% discounts starting immediately

The ease of the Prescription Drug Discount Card Program is its biggest selling point. There are no forms for citizens to fill out and no maintenance is required on behalf of the county. There is no cost to counties participating in the program or citizens using the discount card. Discount cards are sent to participating counties for distribution. The cards may be used by all county residents and for their pets, regardless of age, income or existing health coverage. A national network of almost 60,000 participating retail pharmacies will honor the discount card.

"One year into the program, Bay County, Florida, residents saved more than $400,000 using prescription discount cards." "Rock County, Wisconsin, filled 101 prescriptions with the card in July and by January was filling 909." "We rec'd our first month usage summary for the month of May 2006.  We had 40 residents filling a total of 70 scripts, showing a savings of $770.48 for our residents in St. James Parish, Louisiana.  This is an average of 26.44% savings per script."

For more information: www.naco.org

We think you should use the NACo card to save money:

  1. When a person is without insurance, he can use the NACo card and get his prescription drugs for a 10-40% discount at almost 60,000 pharmacies in the United States.
  2. When a person on Medicare goes into the $3,850 doughnut hole and is dropped from prescription drug coverage, he can use the NACo card and get his prescription drugs for a 10-40% discount at almost 60,000 pharmacies in the United States. Use only in years, when you are not expecting to come out of the hole.
  3. When a person's pet needs a prescription drug available from a participating pharmacy, he can use the NACo card and get his pet's prescription drug for a 10-40% discount at almost 60,000 pharmacies in the United States.
  4. When people can't get $3.33 or $4 generics, they might be considered underinsured and paying too much in charges and co-pays. They might be able to lower some of their prescription drug costs by using the card. North Carolina state employees and teachers, who use the State Medical Plan with Medco administering the prescription benefits, have been dropping their 3-month generic co-pays from $30 to $20-23.31 at some pharmacies by using the card.
  5. When a person is underinsured, because his insurer dropped coverage on some of his prescription drugs, he can use the NACo card and get his prescription drugs for a 10-40% discount at almost 60,000 pharmacies in the United States. North Carolina state employees and teachers might use the card on 4 classes of drugs:
    1. male heart patients, who might need Viagara and similar products
    2. women with post cancer treatment bone loss, who are using Actinol and do not want to switch to over-the-counter Fosamax
    3. Ambien and other sleep aids - they now pay a full co-pay and get 14 days of drugs and have to pay full price for the rest of the month
    4. non-sleep inducing allergy medicines, if they do not want to switch to over the counter for full price

When you find another way to use the card, let us know.