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Health
Introducing The Richland County Prescription Discount Drug Card
* This Plan Is Not Insurance
   Prescription Card
Press Release
Fact Sheet
Participating
Pharmacies

Sample Card
Richland County Council is offering its residents a new prescription discount card program at no cost to County taxpayers! The program shall on average save County residents 20% off of their prescriptions.
Everyone is eligible
  • No income requirements
  • No age requirements
  • Unlimited Use for the entire family

The Richland County Discount Prescription Card is:

Valuable
  • Save an average of 20% off the pharmacy’s regular price on all commonly prescribed prescriptions and an average savings of 50% on 3 month supplies of select generics through mail service.
Easy
  • There are no claim forms to fill out and no annual fee to pay.
Convenient
  • Nearly every national retail pharmacy is a participating pharmacy and many independent pharmacies are as well. To locate the participating pharmacy nearest to you… call 1-877-321-2652 or visit naco.advancerx.com.
Locations
  • You may obtain a card by contacting the Richland County Office of Public Information at (803) 576-2065.
  • Richland County Prescription Discount Cards are also available at the following locations
  • Veterans Affairs
1701 Main Street, Columbia, Suite 409
  • Capital Senior Center
1650 Park Circle, Columbia
  • Richland County Office of Public Information
2020 Hampton Street, Suite 4069
  • Senior Resources
2817 Millwood Ave, Columbia
  • Cooperative Health Pharmacy
4605 Monticello Road, Columbia
  • Richland Community Health Care
1520 Laurel Street, Columbia
  • Town of Blythewood Town Hall
172 Langford Road
  • Town of Irmo Town Hall
7300 Woodrow Street
  • City of Forest Acres City Hall
5205 North Trenholm Road
  • All Richland County Recreation Parks
Starting July 23, 2006

The discount card program is administered by Caremark Rx, Inc. and made possible by a partnership between Richland County and the National Association of Counties.

About The National Association of Counties - http://www.naco.org/ 

The National Association of Counties (NACo) is a full-service organization that provides legislative, research, technical and public affairs assistance to county governments. Created in 1935, NACo continues to ensure that the nation’s 3,066 counties are heard and understood in the White House and Congress.


About Caremark RX - http://www.caremark.com/

Caremark Rx, Inc. is a leading pharmaceutical services company, providing through its affiliates comprehensive drug benefit services to over 2,000 health plan sponsors and their plan participants throughout the U.S. Caremark's clients include corporate health plans, managed care organizations, insurance companies, union, government agencies and other funded benefit plans. The Company operates a national retail pharmacy network with over 60,000 participating pharmacies, seven mail service pharmacies, the industry's only FDA-regulated repackaging plant and 21 licensed specialty pharmacies for delivery of advanced medications to individuals with chronic or genetic diseases and disorders.
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