Posted by Allen Heffler on 01/12/2015
Allen Heffler Medicare Insurance Broker Willow Grove, PA
If you are on Medicare Insurance and also have Medicare Part D for your prescriptions, you may be eligible for assistance for your prescription drugs. In this blog, I will review the help you could receive on a state level; my next blog will review assistance on a federal level.
If you are a Pennsylvania resident, you may be eligible for PACE or PACEnet. These programs are PA’s prescription assistance programs for older adults, offering low-cost prescription medication to qualified residents who are age 65 and older. To be eligible for PACE or PACEnet, you must be a PA resident for over 90 days, age 65 or older, and not be enrolled in Medicaid.
PACE and PACENET eligibility is determined by your previous calendar year’s income. Medicare Part B Premiums are now excluded from income. This is a positive change, since it has the same effect as raising the income limits for eligibility.
PACE
- · For a single person, total income must be $14,500 or less
- · For a married couple, combined total income must be $17,700 or less
- · PACENET income limits are slightly higher than those for PACE
- · For a single person, total income can be between $14,500 and $23,500
- · For a married couple, combined total income can be between $17,700 and $31,500
