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* PAPs—private, corporate
Patient Assistance Programs, run by or on behalf of pharmaceutical
manufacturers
as private charities, provide prescriptions to those patients without any
other current or potential coverage who
are considered needy under individual company guidelines. PAPs are
operated on behalf of manufacturers by
the above contractors using centralized telephone “boiler room” staff
trained in Medicaid, other public health
benefit, VA and private health insurance eligibility; only those patients
whom these contractors screen and find
to be not eligible (or not yet eligible) for such other coverage receive
PAP drugs, if they’re needy enough; where
necessary, patients are temporarily given manufacturer drug donations and
case-managed while awaiting or being
processed for coverage to begin in any alternate health coverage.
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