As insurance companies make it more difficult for patients to remain on brand-name medications that they have taken for decades, especially those on psychotropic medications, there is a work-around for some meds using the innovicares and viatrisoriginals cards. These make up most of the difference in cost between the brand-name and generic versions of the medications.

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