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.
Nilutamide (Nilandron) Introduction and Uses
Nilutamide (Brand name: Nilandron) is an oral prescription medicine. It is used with surgical castration (orchiectomy) to treat metastatic prostate cancer. Treatment is started on the day of surgery or the day after surgery. This medication belongs to a drug class called antiandrogens.
This medication comes as tablets to take by mouth. Each tablet contains 150 mg of the active ingredient. The tablets are supplied in a box, which contains 30 tablets (3 blisters of 10 tablets).
Nilutamide (Nilandron) Mechanism of Action
Nilutamide works by blocking the action of androgen (a male hormone). Prostate cancer that needs male hormones to grow responds to nilutamide treatment. When androgen activity is blocked or lowered, prostate cancer cells cannot grow and spread.
Important Nilutamide (Nilandron) Warnings
Risk of lung problems
Nilutamide may cause interstitial pneumonitis (lung inflammation), which can lead to scarring of the lungs and may be life-threatening. Your healthcare provider will ask you to have a routine chest X-ray before starting treatment and may also consider baseline pulmonary function tests.
Inform your healthcare provider if you have or have ever had any lung disease. Call them immediately if you experience:
- New or worsening shortness of breath
- Cough
- Chest pain
- Fever
- Wheezing
Risk of liver problems
Taking this medication may cause severe liver injury, which can sometimes be fatal. Your healthcare provider will ask you to have tests to measure the levels of liver enzymes before and at several intervals during treatment.
Stop taking nilutamide and contact your healthcare provider immediately if you develop jaundice or other signs of liver injury such as nausea, vomiting, dark urine, or pale feces. Your healthcare provider may permanently discontinue treatment depending on the severity.
Use in Women
This medication isn’t intended for use in women.
How Nilutamide Copay Assistance Works
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
Nilutamide (Nilandron) Dosing
The recommended dose is 300 mg once a day for 30 days, followed by 150 mg once a day. You should start taking nilutamide tablets on the day of surgery or on the day after surgery.
Continue taking nilutamide for as long as your healthcare provider prescribes. Treatment usually continues until the medication is no longer effective or unacceptable side effects occur.
Nilutamide (Nilandron) Proper Use and Storage
- Take your doses exactly as directed. Take your medicine around the same time each day.
- You may take this medication with or without food.
- Don’t stop taking your medication without talking to your healthcare provider.
- If you miss a dose, take the missed dose immediately after you remember. Skip the missed dose if it is time for the next scheduled dose. Never take a double dose to compensate for the missed one.
- If you think an overdose has occurred, call the poison control helpline at 1-800-222-1222 immediately. Overdose symptoms can include nausea, vomiting, headache, and dizziness.
- Store this medication in the original container at 25°C (77°F). Storage at temperatures between 15 to 30°C (59 to 86°F) is permitted for shorter periods, such as during transportation.
- Keep out of reach of children and protect from light.
- Don’t store your medicines in the bathroom.
Nilutamide Side Effects
Common side effects include:
- Hot flashes
- Dizziness
- Constipation
- Nausea or vomiting
- Loss of appetite
- Skin rash
- Decreased libido or impotence
- Urinary tract infections
- Vision changes.
Severe side effects include:
- Yellowing of the skin or the whites of the eyes
- Nausea
- Vomiting
- Stomach pain
- Pain in the upper right part of the stomach
- Extreme tiredness
- Loss of appetite
- Flu-like symptoms
- Dark urine
- Pale feces
- New or worsening shortness of breath, cough, chest pain, fever, wheezing
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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