NOVA ScriptsCentral assisted the Northern Virginia Dental Association Foundation at their annual Mission of Mercy free dental care event on Mar 14 and 15th, 2014. Held in the Northern Virginia Community College Medical Campus in Springfield, Va, approximately 1000 low income people without dental insurance were provided free dental care over the two day event.Volunteer […]
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NOVA ScriptsCentral recently passed another exciting milestone – over $9.4 million dollars of medications dispensed to patients referred by our safety-net partners. NOVA Scripts has been providing medication access to low-income uninsured patients in the Northern Virginia region since September 2007. NOVA Scripts currently has 18 clinic partners throughout the region. The medications available include
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By Aneeza Ahmad, PharmD Candidate, 2015 Generic drug prices are exponentially increasing at alarming rates, with no end in sight. Despite being less expensive overall than their brand name counterparts, generics have saved U.S. patients more than $1.5 trillion dollars in the past decade. The increase in generic drug prices is putting millions of people’s
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We support access to affordable healthcare for all persons. We do not discriminate due to age, gender, disability, national origin, sexual orientation, religion, creed, marital status, veteran status, political faction, economic status, or any other factor. To limit access due to any one of these factors or any other reason is deny a person their
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Virginia is one of the few states in the United States that has chosen against expanding medicaid. They have chosen to do this again and again despite the overwhelming detriment it causes Virginians, you know those average Joes the legislators are supposed to legislate for? So why don’t they want to do it? Honestly your guess
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Take a look at Access Better Coverage: http://accessbettercoverage.org/ . That is all.
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**Let me start this post by being the first to state that I am only speaking on my personal experiences of reviewing the plans, and specifically the 2014 plans from when we were writing the ‘Healthcare Woes’ report. As I am writing this now I am meandering through the current enrollment site to see what
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We wanted to start a small ‘series’ on our partner clinics. NOVA Scripts partners with over 15 clinics in Northern Virginia and each of these clinics provide invaluable services to uninsured patients. So let’s kick this ‘series’ off by honoring Loudoun Free Clinic who was one of the first clinics we ever partnered with. A little about the
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Virginia saw the defeat of the Medicaid expansion movement for this year which has led to a large number of newspaper and web published articles looking at the uninsured and their choices for healthcare coverage through the Affordable Care Act (ACA). What is more disturbing is that these articles are painting the ACA in the
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(Photo from the IN PLAIN SIGHT report by UNICEF) A BBC reporter said: “Women make up half the world, but do we really hear their stories?” This isn’t necessarily a pharmacy or medicinal related post but it is health care related because it is people related. No one suffers abuse without coming away with scars.
1 in 10 Girls Around the World Has Been Abused:It’s happening right in your town Read More »