PACE Prescription Assistance Program
Pennsylvania's prescription assistance programs for older adults, PACE and PACENET, offer low-cost prescription medication to qualified residents, age 65 and older. For more information call 1-800-225-7223.
PACE and PACENET are expanding to help 100,000 more older Pennsylvanians. Act 94 will be implemented sixty (60) days after it was signed into law. This means that older Pennsylvanians who are newly eligible will be able to be enrolled and begin receiving benefits starting February 21, 2022.
Eligibility
PACE and PACENET eligibility is determined by your previous calendar year's income. Since 2014, Social Security Medicare Part B premiums are excluded from income. This change has the same effect as raising the income limits by that amount. For most Medicare beneficiaries, this amount is $1,626.00 per person for a year. For married couples, the excluded amount would be $3,252.00 for a year.
PACE
- You must be 65 years of age or older.
- A PA resident for at least 90 days prior to the date of the application.
- You cannot be enrolled in the Dept of Human Service's Medicaid prescription benefit.
- For a single person, total income must be $14,500 or less.
- For a married couple, combined total income must be $17,700 or less.
PACENET
- You must be 65 years of age or older.
- A PA resident for at least 90 days prior to the date of the application.
- You cannot be enrolled in the Dept of Human Service's Medicaid prescription benefit.
- PACENET income limits are slightly higher than those for PACE
- For a single person, total income can be between $14,500 and $33,500.
- For a married couple, combined total income can be between $17,700 and $41,500.