PAMI includes social benefits to provide medical assistance, such as special care, free medications, Some with savings or preferential rates, hundreds of pharmacies attached throughout the country so you can remove your medication with coverage, and trained professionals and exclusive health centers where you can attend.
Since last month, the agency implemented adjustments in the list of 100% coverage medicines and reported what are the new requirements to access these during February 2025.
In addition, the entity announced a New mechanism whereby retirees and pensioners who were out of the benefit in the first instance can access free medications.
Who can access Pami’s free medications
He PAMI medication program It includes a list with drugs that will continue to be free to facilitate access to essential medicines. Thus, they guarantee the total coverage of those treatments of serious or chronic diseases that are protected by law throughout the country. As for diabetes, oncological medications, fibrochistic diseases, osteoarthritis, HIV and hepatitis b or c, among others.
In addition, the agency established new criteria To determine who can access the 100% coverage In selected medications. Among them, is:
- Have net income less than 1.5 minimum pension assets. For households that have a single disability certificate (CUD), total monthly income must be less than 3 minimum pension assets.
- Not being affiliated with a prepaid medicine system simultaneously with the affiliation to PAMI.
- Not be the owner of more than one property, aircraft or luxury vessels.
- Not having a vehicle less than 10 years old. With the exception of households that have cohabiting with the CUD, who can be holders of up to a vehicle with less than 10 years old.
- Do not be the holder of corporate assets that demonstrate full economic capacity.
But, there is a detail regarding these requirements, since if the affiliate does not meet the first 2 (income stop and not have prepaid medicine) but the cost of medicines indicated for a treatment is equal to or greater than 15% of your incomecan Request 100% coverage For social reasons through an exception mechanism.
On the other hand, veteran affiliates of the Falklands War should not meet these requirements. Although, anyway, they must carry out the request for a subsidy for social reasons.
How to request free medications
The entity announced a new mechanism by which retirees and pensioners who were out of the benefit in the first instance can access free medications.
It is a Subsidy for social reasonswhich points to those headlines that do not have the necessary economic capacity to access the purchase of their medications. And that they can access if they meet a series of requirements and deliver the corresponding documentation.
To request it, it is necessary to make a previous registration where a Key form Show that it does not have the necessary income to access the purchase of medicines. This document is available in the Official Pami website.
Remember that to access this benefit, only 5 free medications can be requested per month and you must present your DNIa Electronic Recipe signed by your doctor or header professional in which the diagnosis or clinical indication for which the medicine is prescribed, a sworn declaration of your socioeconomic situation and Complete the form.
If you need to perform the process to access “social subsidy”, this is the step by step to do so:
- Enter the website From Pami and I accessed the “Web Procedures” section.
- Select the option “Medications” and then, “Medications free of social subsidy“
- I chose to “start this web process.” In reasons, select “Request the service“
- Enter your affiliation number, ID number, and process number of your last ID.
- Complete the Contact form.
- Read the requirements carefully and if you meet them, press “yes, continue.” And complete a brief form. If you have the recipe in paper format, make the site. Of the contour, it is not necessary because it will be in the system. In comments, you can write what are the medications you are requesting, although it is optional.
- Check your data and select “Send”. Write down the Case number which will appear on the screen to follow its management.
Source: Ambito
