Lehigh Valley residents have access to free discount prescription drug cards, compliments of the Greater Lehigh Valley Chamber of Commerce.

The Valley Rx card provides savings up to 75 percent on prescription drugs and is available to chamber members and non-members at every chamber office, at chamber events or cards can be downloaded at lehighvalleychamber.org.

The Valley Rx card was launched to help uninsured and underinsured residents afford their prescription medications.

The card contains numerous benefits:

·Available to all county residents of Lehigh Valley and surrounding areas;

·Provides savings of up to 75 percent on brand and generic medications;

·Can be used to provide savings on formulary and non-formulary medications; and

Prescriptions processed through the program are completely confidential.

The Valley Rx card has no restrictions to membership, no income or age limitations, and residents are not required to fill out an application or provide personal information to obtain a free card.

The card is accepted at more than 50,000 pharmacies across the country, including most major chains (CVS, Giant, Rite-Aid, Target, Walgreens, Walmart, Wegman's, Weis and others), as well as the following independent member pharmacies: Bath Drug, Bath; Bechtel's Pharmacy, Slatington; Fountain Hill Pharmacy, Bethlehem; Hart-zell's Pharmacy, Catasauqua; Medicap Pharmacy, Allentown; Newhard Pharmacy, Northampton; South Mountain Pharmacy and West End Pharmacy, both in Allentown, and Young's Pharmacy, Bethlehem.