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If you choose the original brand, the FREE innoviCares card can help you save on select prescription medications.

What's Covered

How it works

Join 1.5 million Canadians already saving and get your card today. The innoviCares card is a free prescription savings card available to all Canadian residents, and is funded by participating pharmaceutical manufacturers. Present your innoviCares card at your pharmacy and ask for the brand-name medication. Your card will automatically cover a portion of the cost of the original brand.

Your innoviCares card will coordinate with your existing insurance plan(s), or if you don't have insurance, it can be used on its own.

You can easily download a card to get started today.

Get your free card.

Simply click the Get a Card button and receive your unique innoviCares card. Complete the steps to set up your online profile. Your card will always belong to you and won’t expire. There are no additional forms to fill out or waiting periods for coverage – you can print and use your card immediately.

Take your card to pharmacy.

Present your innoviCares card along with a prescription and ask for the original brand-name medication.
The pharmacy will process your innoviCares card just like a drug card.
Your card will automatically cover a portion of participating brands.

Get Your Card

As of April 15, 2021, the Government of Quebec has implemented new regulations restricting financial assistance programs to patients for drugs covered by RAMQ reimbursement and which appear on the Quebec formulary.

If your medication has a generic available and is reimbursed by the RAMQ, it is impacted by this regulation. However, if you are an innoviCares program participant and you’ve received a payment or reimbursement on your current medication prior to April 15, you will continue to receive innoviCares reimbursement for your medication.

However, as of April 15, 2021, no new patients will be eligible to receive payment or reimbursement on innoviCares medications for which a generic is listed on the Quebec formulary. Please note: These medications have been removed from the listing below.

If your medication is NOT reimbursed by the RAMQ, it is exempt from this regulation and all existing and new patients can continue to receive reimbursement through innoviCares.

REFERENCE CHART: An Act respecting prescription drug insurance (chapter A-29.01, s. 80.2, par. 1)

Type of patient	A product where NO Generic or Biosimilar is listed with the RAMQ	A product where a Generic or Biosimilar is listed with the RAMQ prior to April 15, 2021
Existing patients	Can be reimbursed^*	Can continue to be reimbursed
New patients	Can be reimbursed^*	Cannot be reimbursed

^* Only until a generic or biosimilar is listed with the RAMQ

If you are taking a medication that is exempt from the regulation, or received a payment or reimbursement on your current medication prior to April 15, there are two ways you can receive reimbursement on your prescription with innoviCares:

Get reimbursed immediately when you fill your prescription at a participating pharmacy.
Submit your receipt for a participating innoviCares medication online and get reimbursed by cheque or electronic transfer.

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