Prescriptions

Finding prescription drugs at an affordable price is not always easy.  Prescription drug programs are available for those in need and vary based on eligibility.


Prescription Advantage of Massachusetts

Contact: Michael Festa
Address: One Ashburton Place, Fifth floor, Boston, MA
Phone: (800) 243-4636

www.mass.gov/elder-affairs

 Qualifications for Services: Prescription Advantage provides supplemental assistance, based on income, for its members with Medicare prescription drug coverage. Medicare is the primary drug insurance for Prescription Advantage members with Medicare. Prescription Advantage is a secondary payer.

Other Languages Spoken: Spanish

Select Care Benefits Network (SCBN)

State: MA
Phone: (888) 331-1002

www.scbn.org

 Qualifications for Services: Online advocacy organization.Gives prescription drug assistance by helping it's member patients locate, qualify for and successfully access hundreds of free prescription programs on an ongoing basis for only a fraction of the retail costs for those prescription medicines. SCBN also works with thousands of doctors' offices and healthcare clinics to ease the administrative burden of giving medication help to patients through prescription assistance programs.

Community Action Committee of Cape Cod and Islands

Address: 115 Enterprise Road, Hyannis, MA 02601
Phone: (508) 771-1727, (800) 845-1999
Fax: (508) 775-7488
Email: cacci@cacci.cc

www.mass.gov/dhcd

www.cacci.cc

Qualifications for Services: Alternative Housing Voucher Program (AHVP) provides rental vouchers to disabled applicants who are not elderly and who have been determined eligible for Chapter 667 (elderly and disabled) housing. DHCD’s Division of Public Housing and Rental Assistance, which administers this program, has the responsibility for regulatory and administrative oversight of all state public housing programs which address the needs of low-income families, the elderly, and persons with disabilities. Those applicants who are eligible under the Ch. 667 elderly and disabled program, but who are under the age of 60.

Hands of Hope Outreach 

Address: 355 MAIN STREET (ROUTE 28), Dennisport, MA 02639
Phone: (508) 394-6361
Fax: (508) 760-3226
Email: churcheshoh@comcast.net

www.mccarthyphoto.com

 Qualifications for Services: Serving the families of Yarmouth, Dennis, Harwich, Mashpee and all of the Barnstable Villages including Hyannis.