Rx Drug Access Partnership

Rx Partnership (RxP) seeks to improve quality of life and improve health outcomes for low-income, uninsured individuals across the Commonwealth by increasing access to affordable brand-name and generic medication. We provide uninsured patients in Virginia with fast, efficient and low-cost access to vitally needed prescriptions. RxP envisions a future where every Virginian has access to the medication they need – regardless of cost. We are Virginia's only organization dedicated exclusively to medication access for low-income, uninsured individuals. We want to make sure that patients do not ever have to choose between filling their prescription and managing their bills for rent and utilities or even purchasing food. While this ambitious goal cannot be accomplished overnight, RxP is dedicated to creating new and innovative systems for moving towards this goal. By working in partnership with free clinics throughout Virginia, RxP is able to help a significant number of uninsured patients receive medication quickly and easily. This means patients with a variety of chronic conditions are able to take their medication as directed - preventing ER visits, unnecessary hospitalizations and serious negative health outcomes.

Our goals are to:
1. Provide more access to medication to more patients in need.
2.Identify and gather the data needed to support our mission.
3. Create opportunities to build partnerships to further our mission.
4. Ensure resources are available to successfully achieve organizational sustainability.

To expand the breadth and depth of our prescription services to low-income, uninsured Virginians, RxP will:

1. Continuously identify ways to strengthen existing, and explore new opportunities, to obtain and distribute generic drugs. Identify opportunities to develop new clinic partners, and engage existing clinic partners to safely and effectively maximize prescription utilization. Actively engage with our statewide partners around future-focused collaborations to reach more uninsured and under-insured Virginians.


2. Develop recommendations for an overall data strategy that strengthens our ability to serve our clinic partners and their patients with a focus on communicating success stories and sharing best practices.

3. Increase awareness of the need for medication access in the Commonwealth among a broad community of funders, legislators, and policymakers. Engage critical audiences via our ability to tell our story in ways that demonstrate measurable impact.

4. Align Rx Partnership’s future organizational structure with identified strategic direction. Develop Board’s capacity to address future goals via the following:Develop and implement a long-term plan to diversify and increase funding.

RxP serves as a critical part of Virginia's health safety net by providing education and access to medications that results in improved health outcomes for patients, cost savings for clinics, and an overall reduction in healthcare costs. RxP's services are provided via a network of clinics across Virginia and this helps RxP expand and maximize its influence across many geographic regions. By leveraging these relationships with community partners, RxP is able to have a statewide presence with only a small, core staff. The organization is nimble enough to periodically assess the environment and make staffing changes as needed to ensure adequate service coverage.

Since its inception, RxP has always been a good financial steward of donations—managing expenses while maximizing revenue. Our last fiscal year saw medications valued at over $16 million provided to clinics – an over 26-to-1 return on donated funds.

RxP has distributed over $245M in pharmaceuticals since its inception. We have achieved that milestone by maintaining positive and meaningful relationships with brand-name pharmaceutical donors, partner clinics, and health-safety net advocates. RxP also participates in community healthcare coalitions –made up of other patient advocacy groups and health care organizations—to advance shared priorities. We have knowledgeable, dedicated staff, focused on core service delivery and a strong, broad, and consistent funding base. As an example, the Virginia Health Care Foundation (VHCF) has been a long-term supporter and grantor. VHCF's continued support reflects, we believe, their confidence in our fiscal management, as evidenced in our audited financials, our collaborative work with VHCF's partners and our integral part of the health-care safety net in Virginia, and the return on investment (the ratio of value-to-patient services and grant funds) of VHCF's annual contribution. In addition, RxP is fortunate to have a committed board of directors, 100% of whom donate to the organization.

Since 2003, Rx Partnership has provided more than 76,000 low-income and uninsured patients with over 893,000 prescriptions valued in excess of $245 million. With core values of innovation, accountability, collaboration and resource optimization, we have created new initiatives to address the serious problems regarding affordable medications for low-income uninsured patients. We've accomplished a lot, but our work is clearly not done.
In addition to providing over 44,000 prescriptions to over 8,200 Virginians in need in 2021, RxP continues to support our clinic partners by offering networking and training sessions, participating in advocacy work that expands healthcare access to vulnerable Virginians and keeping clinics updated and educated on healthcare alerts, policy changes and pharmacy best practices. RxP is a respected organization and is looked at as a leader in the field. In 2019 we also increased program eligibility to 300% federal poverty level (FPL) and increased the number of generic medications offered to clinic partners without pharmacies by 26%.