Mark’s Medicine
Mark’s prescription medication costs $2,000.
To make matters worse, his insurance company refused to cover it.
Even after using a discount card, the prescription still cost $750.
Mark and his wife, Sarah simply didn’t have any way of paying for it.
And with Mark’s supply running out in a few weeks, panic started to set in.
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Mark has a severe stomach condition that requires a unique, and expensive, prescription medication.
After learning about Mark’s condition from a community leader, we quickly flew into action. It was the beginning of January and Mark’s supply was running out February 11th.
As certified and experienced Needymeds (http://www.needymeds.org/) advocates, we quickly discovered a way to get Mark and Sarah the financial assistance they so desperately needed.
That was the easy part. The hard part was getting together the mountain of necessary paperwork.
After numerous trips to our office, faxes to Mark’s doctors and even a home visit by our staff, we were ready to submit the application.
Time was running out.
We had just one week, till February 11th, until Mark’s prescription ran out. February 11th. Sarah was a nervous wreck. We assured her we were doing everything we could. We called the pharmaceutical company almost every day to confirm receipt of our faxed application. “We can’t find it,” was the response we got.
We faxed it a second time.
“We still can’t find it.”
We were beside ourselves.
Finally they found it. But now they needed to verify it with Mark’s doctor.
It was February 10th.
February 11th came and went with no medicine.
On Friday, February 12th, we called the pharmaceutical company and told them we needed the medicine now. We were told Mark’s application had been approved and he would be receiving his medicine on Monday.
“Great!” We told him. Then we realized Monday was President’s day.
No mail meant no medicine.
“No problem,” he said. “I’ll send it FedEx.”
We told Sarah to buy a few pills to get Mark through till Monday.
FedEx came on Monday with three bottles of medicine. Plus an approval for 12 months of Mark’s medicine. Absolutely free.