How Assistance Works
Streamlining our patient’s specialty pharmacy experience with unmatched full-service convenience
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1. Check Your Coverage/Benefits Verification
Our team of expert billers finds the best avenues of coverage that minimize out-of-pocket costs.
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2. Transfer Prescription to AmeriPharma®
We process your prescription by working with your previous pharmacy or prescriber, making the transition quick and easy.
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3. Prior Authorization
Our team of specialists obtains approval from your insurance companies within 24 to 72 hours.
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4. Copay Assistance & Financial Aid
We secure financial aid and decrease copays, out-of-pocket expenses, and high deductibles. To date, AmeriPharma® Specialty Care has secured $55 million in financial assistance for our patients.
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5. Nursing Care Coordination If Needed
AmeriPharma® puts your schedule and home environment first when scheduling and coordinating one of our specialized nurses for your in-home infusions.
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6. Delivery Coordination
Medications are always delivered in strict compliance with the specific requirements for shipping. Next-day and overnight cold-chain deliveries are coordinated around your schedule.
What Is Carimune?
Carimune, also known by its generic name, immune globulin IGIV, is a medication typically prescribed to strengthen the immune system in patients who are at higher risk of certain infections.
Carimune belongs to the “immune globulins” drug class, and it is made up of highly purified and concentrated forms of IgG antibodies (96% of IgGs). This medication contains IgG immunoglobulins prepared from the pooled plasma of thousands of healthy donors.
Carimune is available in sterile, lyophilized powder form that is reconstituted before infusion. Currently, this medication is being sold under various common brand names such as Bivigam, Flebogamma, Gammagard S/D, Gammaplex, Octagam, Panzyga, Privigen, Vigam, Vivaglobulin, and Carimune NP.
What Is Carimune Used to Treat?
In addition to strengthening the patient’s immune system, Carimune can also be prescribed for the following conditions:
- Primary immunodeficiencies (PID)
- B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia
- Acute or chronic idiopathic thrombocytopenia purpura (ITP)
- Kawasaki syndrome
- Multifocal motor neuropathy
- Dermatomyositis
- Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP)
IGIV may also be used off-label for other purposes not listed in this medication guide.
Copay and Financial Assistance
AmeriPharma® Specialty Pharmacy alleviates financial burdens for patients and their families
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Advanced software locates funding sources to match you with top-dollar foundation programs
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One of our copay assistance specialists will assist with the application process
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Automatic updates will be sent to you and your physician on the status of the funding
How Does It Work?
Since Carimune contains 96% of all IgG antibodies, it exerts a wide range of effects in patients with different conditions, which are as follows:
It Boosts the Immune System
Patients with primary immunodeficiency disorders such as X-linked agammaglobulinemia, common variable immunodeficiency, and severe combined immunodeficiency are more prone to various infections.
Carimune works to boost the immune system by supplying the missing or deficient antibodies, ultimately reducing the frequency and severity of infection in these patients.
It Increases Blood Clotting Cells (Platelets)
Patients with acute or chronic idiopathic thrombocytopenia purpura experience low levels of blood-clotting cells called platelets due to the attack of autoantibodies (abnormal antibodies produced by the immune system against healthy cells such as platelets).
Carimune works to increase the level of platelets by neutralizing the effects of autoantibodies.
It Modulates Hyperactive Immune Responses
Similarly, Carimune also neutralizes or blocks the action of autoantibodies in patients with CIDP or multifocal neuropathy (a disorder in which the immune system attacks the nerves).
It Prevents Infection and Aneurysm
In patients with B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia, Carimune helps to prevent certain infections. It also prevents aneurysms (which occur as a result of weakness in the main artery of the heart) in patients with Kawasaki disease.
Carimune Side Effects
Common side effects include:
- Arthralgia (joint pain)
- Myalgia (muscle pain or weakness)
- Transient skin reactions (such as rash, erythema, pruritus, urticaria, eczema or dermatitis)
- Headache or dizziness
- Nausea, diarrhea, or stomach pain
- Fever
- Increased blood pressure and heart rate
- Sweating
Serious side effects include:
- An increase in creatinine and blood urea nitrogen (BUN)
- Thrombosis
- Renal (kidney) dysfunction such as acute renal failure, acute tubular necrosis, proximal tubular nephropathy, and osmotic nephrosis with progression to oliguria or anuria (little or no urine)
- Lung problems such as difficulty breathing, chest pain, or blue-colored lips or skin
- Dehydration
- Aseptic meningitis
- Blood clots
Insurances Accepted
We accept Medicare, multi-state Medicaid, Medi-Cal, Blue Shield, and most private insurances. Call us to find out more about your coverage.
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