He Comprehensive Medical Care Program (PAMI) It is the public social work of the older adultsand has a wide list of programs for its more than 5 million members in order to improve their quality of life
Includes social benefits to provide medical assistance, such as special care, trained professionals and exclusive health centers where you can attend, Free medications and some with preferential rates, and hundreds of pharmacies attached throughout the country so you can remove your medication with coverage.
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.
Who can access Pami’s free medications
To facilitate access to essential medicines, the PAMI medication program It includes a list with drugs that will continue to be free. Thus, they guarantee the total coverage of those special treatments of serious or chronic diseases that are protected by the law in force throughout the country.
To access the benefit they must meet these requirements:
- 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 process free Pami medications
Face -to -face processing in agency
For the face -to -face procedure it is only necessary to go with the ID and your PAMI credential. It is no longer necessary to attend with the affidavit, and this is because whoever attends to you can see your personal data in the system if you meet the requirements to access the social subsidy.
If you meet the requirements and request up to 4 medications, it will be approved and I could directly serve the pharmacy to withdraw them. In the case of requesting 5 or more, your header must complete the form that supports the order.
Process via web pami
- Enter the Pami websitesection “Web procedures”, and select “Medications free of social subsidy.” Then, Marcá “Start this procedure.”
- Enter your affiliate number, ID number and process number of the latest version of your ID.
- Complete a form of contact indicating whether the person who is performing the procedure is the titular affiliate or a relative, telephone number and email.
- A screen will be displayed with the List of requirements To access the benefit, where you must confirm if you meet them.
- When confirming, 3 questions will appear: if you have corporate assets, if you have a relative in charge with disabilities, or if you have a recipe in paper format. If in the latter you answer yes, a space will appear where you can Load the document (photo or .pdf) of the recipe. And if on the contrary you select that no, do not worry, it already has its recipes in electronic format.
- Then, a text field will appear that is optional to leave a comment, for example, the names of the medications you are requesting.
- Select “Finish documentation load” and confirm the information provided.
The procedure will be initiated and the Case number so that, as an affiliate, you can consult the state of the process. The response time will be within the next 24 hours.
After completing the process (face -to -face or online), to access To medications, you have to ask your head doctor to send the Electronic Recipe to Pharmacy. And to remove them, you just have to carry your PAMI DNI and CREDENTIAL. In case you cannot go, a relative or person of your trust can do so by presenting the required documentation.
What are the medications that PAMI grants for free
The list of Free medications It was confirmed at the beginning of this new year, and can be consulted directly from the social work website. In this way, those drugs with Total coverage are:
- Those required for diabetes treatment
- Oncological medications
- Oncohematological medications
- Hemophilia treatment
- HIV and hepatitis B and C treatment
- Transplant medications
- Medications for hematopoietic disorders
- Medications for rheumatoid arthritis
- Medications for fibrochistic diseases
- Intraviteal ophthalmological medications
- Osteoarthritis medications
- Medications for chronic renal failure and hyperparathyroidism
In addition, it offers Discounts of up to 80% on the “Pami price”its preferential rate in pharmacies for medicines indicated in the treatment of serious or acute diseases. And in the case of the drugs for occasional use, the discount is from 40%.
Source: Ambito
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