Specialty pharmacy prescriptions

When you’re navigating complex health conditions such as cancer, HIV or multiple sclerosis, Aurora Specialty Pharmacy is here to offer comprehensive support beyond filling your medications. You’ll have access to medication counseling, insurance help and more. We also collaborate with your care team to understand your unique health history and optimize your treatment plan.

What are specialty pharmacy prescriptions for?

Specialty pharmacies make it easier for patients to access high-cost, complex medications used to treat significant illnesses that need extra care. These medicines often need special handling, close monitoring and added support to use safely.

You may need a specialty pharmacy prescription if your medicine:

Treats a serious or long-term health condition
Is given by injection or infusion
Needs refrigeration
Is costly and requires insurance approval
Requires ongoing support, such as lab tests

What services does a specialty pharmacy provide?

In addition to filling prescriptions, we help you manage the process of treating your health concerns. Our services include:

Help with prescription insurance benefits: Medications for complex conditions are often costly. We explain your benefits, help you file your claims and assist with medication authorization. As a result, you get your medication at the lowest possible cost. Learn more about insurance and Medicare at Aurora Pharmacy.
Coordination: We coordinate with all your providers to ensure dosages and any potential drug interactions are reviewed by both your care team and our expert pharmacists and technicians.
Education: We’ll help you understand the educational materials that come with your specialty Rx medications as well as side effects, interactions and dosages, and ensure you and your loved ones understand all the details of your medication plan.
Medication delivery: We mail your specialty medications right to your front door. We’ll even watch for upcoming refills to make sure you get your next shipment in plenty of time.

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When you fill prescriptions with Aurora Pharmacy, LiveWell makes it easy to get refills, manage medications and more.

What chronic conditions does the specialty pharmacy treat?

We specialize in medication for many complex health conditions. Aurora Specialty Pharmacy is most commonly involved in treating the following conditions, but your provider may recommend us to help manage your specific needs.

Some cancer medications can be difficult to administer, and many come with uncomfortable side effects. Our pharmacists can show you how to take specialty medications correctly, recognize adverse reactions, manage side effects and more. Learn more about cancer care.

Treatment for Crohn’s disease is highly individualized and depends on its severity. Although there’s no cure for Crohn’s, specialty medication may help you control inflammation, correct nutritional deficiencies, and relieve abdominal pain, diarrhea and rectal bleeding. Learn more about Crohn's disease.

We help people successfully eliminate the hepatitis C virus using certain antiviral medications. Because treatment often involves taking a combination of medications, we coordinate with your care team to make sure you stay safe from any possible drug interactions. Learn more about hepatitis C.

If you can’t take statins as your high cholesterol medicine or if your high cholesterol isn’t controlled by statins alone, we offer injectable medications called PCSK9 inhibitors to reduce “bad” cholesterol levels. PCSK9 can reduce cholesterol by 50% or more. Learn more about heart and vascular care.

HIV is a condition that can lead to AIDS if untreated. We regularly treat people with HIV using antiretroviral therapy (ART). If taken properly every day, it can dramatically prolong the lives of people with HIV.

Although there is no cure, we can help you manage multiple sclerosis (MS) with effective specialty medications, including interferons (which reduces MS episodes and slows the progression of physical symptoms), immunosuppressants and monoclonal antibodies. Learn more about multiple sclerosis.

If you’ve been diagnosed with osteoporosis, our pharmacists can help you slow the condition’s progression through specialty osteoporosis medications and treatments such as injectable and anabolic drugs that slow bone loss or increase bone formation. We also offer counseling on proper nutrition, appropriate exercise and lifestyle changes. Learn more about osteoporosis.

We look for specialty medications that match your type of psoriasis, the severity of the condition, the size of the area affected and your previous response to medication. We offer systemic therapy, a type of psoriasis medication that helps to suppress the immune system. Learn more about psoriasis.

For people with rheumatoid arthritis, we carefully monitor medication dosages and side effects, depending on the disease’s progression and severity. Our specialty rheumatoid arthritis medications help with pain relief, disease progression and inflammation. Learn more about rheumatoid arthritis.

Specialty pharmacy resources

Aurora Specialty Pharmacy helps people with a wide range of complex conditions. Our patient handbook is a great place to get more info about how you can benefit from specialty pharmacy services.

Download our specialty pharmacy handbook [PDF]