West Virginia Rx gets meds out quickly

By Mary Wade Burnside Times West Virginian FAIRMONT — Under the old system, a diabetic or someone else with a chronic condition taking advantage of prescription-assistance programs might have waited four to six weeks to get their free medications. Today, with West Virginia Rx, that patient can get the meds in a day or two via a mail-order, centrally operated pharmacy that not only gets the prescription filled quickly, but also helps out with the copious amounts paperwork involved. West Virginia Rx was created during the 2008 West Virginia legislative session and filled its first prescription in April, according to executive director Brenda Dane, who operates the mail-order pharmacy from the West Virginia Health Right free clinic in Charleston. “Currently, we have 300 patients and we already have filled $400,000 worth of... [read full story]