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3 Ways to help your patients get started with FORTEO

forteo savings copay card

Forteo Co-Pay Card*

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forteo connect patient support

FORTEO Connect™

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forteo patient starter kit

Forteo starter kit

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*Governmental beneficiaries excluded, subject to terms and conditions.

Forteo Co-Pay Card

  • Eligible patients pay as little as $4 per month with the FORTEO Co-Pay Card
  • Up to 24 months

Download their FORTEO Co-Pay Card below

Offer good for up to 12 months. Patients must have coverage for FORTEO through their commercial drug insurance to pay as little as $4 for a 28-day supply of FORTEO. Offer subject to a monthly cap of wholesale acquisition cost plus usual and customary pharmacy charges and a separate annual cap of $9,100. Patient cannot use the card past 24 months of therapy. Offer void where prohibited by law. Patient is responsible for any applicable taxes, fees, or amounts exceeding monthly or annual caps. This offer is invalid for Patients without commercial drug insurance or whose prescription claims for FORTEO are eligible to be reimbursed, in whole or in part, by any governmental program, including, without limitation, Medicaid, Medicare, Medicare Part D, Medigap, DoD, VA, TRICARE®/CHAMPUS, or any State Patient or Pharmaceutical Assistance Program. Offer void where prohibited by law and subject to change or discontinue without notice. Card activation is required. Subject to additional terms and conditions, which can be found www.forteo.com/savings.

Help eligible patients lower out-of-pocket costs to as little as $4 per month for FORTEO for up to 24 months. Help your patients by downloading their card below or contact FORTEO Connect™.

Patient Co-Pay Card

Eligible commercially insured patients pay as little as $4 for a month's supply of FORTEO*.

*See terms and conditions above

Enroll them in FORTEO Connect™

Information and injection training

  • Patients learn how to get off to a good start on FORTEO with personalized support

Insurance investigation

You can enroll your patients online or by calling 1-866-4-FORTEO (1-866-436-7836), 8 am-10 pm ET (M-F).

Give them a FORTEO starter kit†

Call The Lilly Answers Center (TLAC) at 1-800-LillyRx (1-800-545-5979) to receive kits

  • FORTEO Travel Bag with room for their FORTEO delivery device and needles
  • FORTEO User Manual
  • FORTEO Patient Guide
  • FORTEO Prescribing Information and Medication Guide
  • FORTEO Welcome Card

†Note: There is a limit of 1 kit per person.

For more information about FORTEO

Please see full Prescribing Information

Resources for healthcare providers

Use the resources below to explore important information you should know about FORTEO.

IMPORTANT SAFETY INFORMATION

CONTRAINDICATIONS

FORTEO is contraindicated in patients with hypersensitivity to teriparatide or to any of its excipients. Reactions have included angioedema and anaphylaxis.

WARNINGS AND PRECAUTIONS

Osteosarcoma: Osteosarcoma has been reported in patients treated with FORTEO in the post marketing setting; however, an increased risk of osteosarcoma has not been observed in observational studies in humans. Avoid use in patients with increased baseline risk of osteosarcoma including patients with open epiphyses (pediatric and young adult patients), metabolic bone diseases including Paget’s disease of the bone, bone metastases or history of skeletal malignancies, prior external beam or implant radiation therapy involving the skeleton, and hereditary disorders predisposing to osteosarcoma. There is limited data assessing the risk of osteosarcoma beyond 2 years.

Hypercalcemia and Cutaneous Calcification: FORTEO may cause hypercalcemia and may exacerbate hypercalcemia in patients with pre-existing hypercalcemia. Avoid FORTEO in patients known to have an underlying hypercalcemic disorder, such as primary hyperparathyroidism.

Serious reports of calciphylaxis and worsening of previously stable cutaneous calcification have been reported in the post-marketing setting in patients taking FORTEO. Risk factors for development of calciphylaxis include underlying autoimmune disease, kidney failure, and concomitant warfarin or systemic corticosteroid use. Discontinue in patients developing calciphylaxis or worsening of previously stable cutaneous calcification.

Risk of Urolithiasis: Consider the risks and benefits in patients with active or recent urolithiasis because of risk of exacerbation. If FORTEO-treated patients have pre-existing hypercalciuria or suspected/known active urolithiasis, consider measuring urinary calcium excretion.

Orthostatic Hypotension: Transient orthostatic hypotension may occur with initial doses of FORTEO. FORTEO should be administered initially under circumstances in which the patient can sit or lie down if symptoms of orthostatic hypotension occur. In short-term clinical pharmacology studies of FORTEO in healthy volunteers, transient episodes of symptomatic orthostatic hypotension were observed in 5% of volunteers.

Risk of Digoxin Toxicity: Hypercalcemia may predispose patients to digitalis toxicity because FORTEO transiently increases serum calcium. Consider the potential onset of signs and symptoms of digitalis toxicity when FORTEO is used in patients receiving digoxin.

ADVERSE REACTIONS

The most common adverse reactions in clinical trials included: arthralgia (10.1% FORTEO vs. 8.4% placebo), pain (21.3% FORTEO vs. 20.5% placebo), and nausea (8.5% FORTEO vs. 6.7% placebo). Other adverse reactions included: dizziness, leg cramps, joint aches, and injection site reactions.

FORTEO may increase serum calcium, urinary calcium, and serum uric acid.

USE IN SPECIFIC POPULATIONS

Pregnancy & Lactation
There are no available data on FORTEO use in pregnant women to evaluate for drug-associated risk of major birth defects, miscarriage, or adverse maternal or fetal outcomes. Consider discontinuing FORTEO when pregnancy is recognized. It is not known whether teriparatide is excreted in human milk, affects human milk production, or has effects on the breastfed infant. Avoid FORTEO use in women who are breastfeeding.

Pediatric Use
The safety and effectiveness of FORTEO have not been established in pediatric patients. Pediatric patients are at higher baseline risk of osteosarcoma because of open epiphyses. Avoid use due to increased baseline risk of osteosarcoma.

For more safety information, please click to see Medication Guide and Full Prescribing Information . Click to see Full User Manual that accompanies the delivery device.

FORTEO® is a registered trademark owned or licensed by Eli Lilly and Company, its subsidiaries, or affiliates.

TE HCP ISI 16NOV2020

INDICATION

FORTEO is indicated:

  • for the treatment of postmenopausal women with osteoporosis at high risk for fracture (defined herein as having a history of osteoporotic fracture or multiple risk factors for fracture) or who have failed or are intolerant to other available osteoporosis therapy. In postmenopausal women with osteoporosis, FORTEO reduces the risk of vertebral and nonvertebral fractures.
  • to increase bone mass in men with primary or hypogonadal osteoporosis at high risk for fracture or who have failed or are intolerant to other available osteoporosis therapy.
  • for the treatment of men and women with osteoporosis associated with sustained systemic glucocorticoid therapy (daily dosage equivalent to 5 mg or greater of prednisone) at high risk for fracture or who have failed or are intolerant to other available osteoporosis therapy.