With 875,000 Illinois residents uninsured and as many as 700,000 Illinois residents potentially losing Medicaid health coverage in 2023, Good Pill will provide direct access to hundreds of life-saving medications and save families $150+/month on healthcare costsPowered by donated surplus medicine, Good Pill reduces waste of unused and unexpired drugs and sustainably scales the safe delivery of medication to patients in needSIRUM introduces meaningful opportunity to expand impact of the Illinois Drug Reuse Opportunity Program Act to increase healthcare equity within the local communityCHICAGO, May 10, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, SIRUM, the nation's largest redistributor of surplus medications, announces it is bringing non-profit, home-delivery pharmacy, Good Pill, to Illinois. Good Pill is dedicated to providing people with affordable medication (with savings of $150+/month on healthcare costs) and to filling prescriptions for anyone whose medication costs are too high – including people with insurance, but high co-pays or deductibles, and those who don't have insurance who often pay more at the pharmacy counter. Now, hundreds of thousands of Illinoisans no longer have to choose between affording life-saving medicine and other essentials, such as housing and food.In Illinois, 875,000 residents are uninsured1, and as many as 700,000 Illinois residents could lose Medicaid health coverage in 2023 due to Medicaid pandemic protections that ended on March 312. On top of that, Altarum's Consumer Healthcare Experience State Survey (CHESS) in Illinois illustrated that more than half of all respondents reported being either "worried" or "very worried" about affording the cost of prescription drugs3. SIRUM drives the future of healthcare by connecting people with surplus medications and believes everyone should have access to medication, regardless of cost, age or insurance. SIRUM is powering Good Pill in Illinois by facilitating the collection of unopened and unexpired non-opioid surplus medicine that would otherwise go to waste, and redistributing donated medicine to Good Pill's pharmacy to serve patients in need.SIRUM Brings Non-profit, Home-delivery Pharmacy, Good Pill, to Illinois Tweet thisHere's how Good Pill's licensed pharmacy works:A patient registers with Good Pill and then their healthcare providers can directly send their prescriptions to Good Pill, like a regular pharmacy.Good Pill's pharmacists and technicians get to work on filling and shipping the order within 1-2 days and deliver it between 3-5 days, with free shipping.Good Pill shares transparent tracking updates through a patient's preferred method of communication, either cell, text or email, and provides ongoing medication management, including automatic refills.With Good Pill, a patient's first order is $6, regardless of the number of medications and with or without insurance