What Arik actually checks

Most tools compare one kind of discount. Arik checks every legal category at once, then tells you honestly which ones are live today and which are still being built.

Pathway categories

This is the actual breadth Arik searches — not a marketing list. Each category is tagged with where it stands.

Live today
Manufacturer copay cards
Direct manufacturer savings programs for commercially insured patients — checked against your specific coverage, never shown where federal law prohibits it.
Live today
Independent foundation grants
Charity-run patient assistance funds, income-based, not tied to any manufacturer — the legal alternative for Medicare and Medicaid patients.
Live today
Cash and self-pay pricing
Direct-to-patient pricing tiers, shown honestly across the real day-supply options — not collapsed into one misleading number.
Live today
State accumulator-law awareness
Whether your state legally protects you from a plan quietly canceling out your copay card's benefit — a trap most tools never check for at all.
Coming next
VA, TRICARE & CHAMPVA pathways
Structured benefit rules for veterans and military families — a population most coupon tools completely ignore.
Coming next
Medicare Extra Help screening
A federal subsidy that can change the cost of every drug in your regimen at once — often the single biggest thing people don't know they qualify for.
Coming next
Diagnosis-linked disease funds
Programs like the AIDS Drug Assistance Program — gated on documented diagnosis, never on demographics, exactly as the real programs are.
Coming next
State-run assistance programs
Drug-agnostic wraparound benefits some states run for residents — often layered on top of federal coverage, mostly overlooked.
Arik checks legal eligibility, not just price.
A coupon aggregator shows you a number. Arik checks whether you're actually allowed to use it — and what happens to your deductible if you do.

Real savings, real sources

Every number below is sourced and dated, the same discipline as everywhere else on this site.

Eliquis — Medicare patient
$231/month
The 2026 IRA-negotiated Medicare price — surfaced instead of a manufacturer copay card, which federal law prohibits for Medicare enrollees.
CMS IRA negotiated price — verified 2026-08-12
Eliquis — commercial insurance
$10/fill
The manufacturer copay card's stated price for commercially insured patients — shown only where it's actually the legal option.
BMS/Pfizer program page — verified 2026-07-24

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