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Help When You Need It Most

Life doesn't always go as planned. We can all use a helping hand from time to time. That's why Novo Nordisk offers several ways to make sure you keep receiving the treatment you or your child needs.

JumpStart™ is a program that sends free Norditropin® to help patients with short-term needs. At the beginning of treatment, it helps patients get started quickly while insurance coverage is worked out. During treatment, it prevents gaps that could happen from things like moving or changing insurance. Even if something happens to your current Norditropin® device, JumpStart™ can help. To see if you or your child is eligible for the JumpStart™ program, speak to your Case Manager at NordiCare®.

Growth hormone is an important medical therapy and limited financial means should not interfere with obtaining it. Our Patient Access Program (PAP) is available to provide free Norditropin® over longer periods to eligible patients who do not have adequate insurance coverage.

Patients who show true financial need based on their family's yearly income, where they live and the number of people living with them may receive this benefit until their financial or insurance status improves.

To find out if you are eligible for help through NordiCare®, call us at 1-888-NOVO-444
(1-888-668-6444).

NordiSure™ Co-pay
Assistance Program

In addition to getting free product through JumpStart™ and PAP, we also can help with your out-of-pocket cost for Norditropin®. NordiSure™ is a program that can reduce your payments up to $125 a month. For the majority of patients, this may mean your entire cost is covered depending on the specific insurance plan.

Contact your Case Manager at 1-888-NOVO-444 (1-888-668-6444) too determine whether you are eligible for NordiSure™.*

*NordiSure™ terms and conditions
Program covers costs including but not limited to copay/coinsurance up to $125 per month of therapy for a period of 12 months to a maximum of $1500 per year. Program may be use no more frequently than every 21 days. Program is not valid for prescriptions that are eligible to be reimbursed by private insurance plans or other health or pharmacy benefit programs that reimburse the patient for the entire cost of his/her prescription drugs. Not valid for prescriptions that are eligible to be reimbursed, in whole or in part, by Medicaid, Medicare (including part D), or other federal or state programs (including any state prescription drug assistance programs). Not valid for residents of Massachusetts. The program cannot be combined with any other rebate/coupon, free trial, or similar offer for the specified prescription. Offer good only in the United States.

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Indications and Usage

Norditropin® (somatropin [rDNA origin] injection) is used to treat: children who have growth failure because of low or no growth hormone; children who are short (in stature) and who have Noonan syndrome or Turner syndrome; children who are short (in stature) because they were born small (small for gestational age-SGA) and have not caught-up in growth by age 2 to 4 years; and adults who do not make enough growth hormone.

Important Safety Information

Do not use Norditropin® if: you have a critical illness caused by certain types of heart or stomach surgery, trauma or breathing (respiratory) problems; you are a child with Prader-Willi syndrome who is severely obese or has breathing problems including sleep apnea; you have cancer or other tumors; your healthcare provider tells you that you have certain types of eye problems caused by diabetes; you are a child with closed bone growth plates (epiphyses) or you are allergic to any of the ingredients in the medicine.

Before you take Norditropin®, tell your healthcare provider if you: have diabetes; had cancer or any tumor; have any other medical condition; are pregnant or plan to become pregnant; are breast-feeding or plan to breast-feed.

Norditropin® can cause serious side effects, including: high risk of death in people who have critical illnesses because of heart or stomach surgery, trauma or serious breathing (respiratory) problems; high risk of death in children with Prader-Willi syndrome who are severely obese or have breathing problems including sleep apnea; return of tumor or cancerous growths; high blood sugar (hyperglycemia); increase in pressure in the skull (intracranial hypertension); swollen hands and feet due to fluid retention; decrease in thyroid hormone levels; hip and knee pain or a limp in children (slipped capital femoral epiphysis); worsening of pre-existing curvature of the spine (scoliosis); middle ear infection, hearing problems or ear problems in patients with Turner syndrome.

Patients with Noonan syndrome and Turner syndrome should be closely monitored by their doctors as they are more likely to have congenital heart disease.

The most common side effects of Norditropin® include: headaches, muscle pain, joint stiffness, high blood sugar (hyperglycemia), sugar in your urine (glucosuria), swollen hands and feet due to fluid retention, and redness and itching in the area you inject. If you have headaches, eye problems, nausea or vomiting (these may be symptoms of raised pressure in the brain), contact your healthcare provider right away.

Norditropin® may affect how other medicines work, and other medicines may affect how Norditropin® works so be sure to tell your healthcare provider about all the medicines you take including prescription and non-prescription medicines, vitamins, and herbal supplements.

Especially tell your healthcare provider if you take: glucocorticoid medication, thyroid hormone, insulin or other medicine for diabetes, medicines that are metabolized by the liver (e.g., corticosteroids, sex steroids, anticonvulsants, cyclosporine), or oral estrogen replacement medicine.

For more information, please click here for complete Norditropin® Prescribing Information.

Norditropin® is a prescription medication.

Novo Nordisk provides patient assistance for those who qualify. Please call 1-866-310-7549 to learn more about Novo Nordisk assistance programs.

You are encouraged to report negative side effects of prescription drugs to the FDA. Visit www.fda.gov/medwatch, or call 1-800-FDA-1088

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