Amen,
The US health care system is totally unfair!! I pay $25 a month for my 400mg Gleevec supply, and for some reason my insurance carrier,(I have BCBS but my meds go through Caremark) will not let me get Gleevec at the pharmacy, instead I have to call Caremark and they overnight it to me?? I still cannot figure out how that can be saving Caremark any money. I have also recently been having problems with my other meds. My doctors(for whatever reason) keep writing my scripts for my other meds in amounts like 100? Well the insurance will only pay for 90.(based on 3 a day I guess?) so I end up having 2 or 3 refills for only 10 pills???? The one thing I am very concerned about right now is I am going to see a new doc here in Cincy(instead of driving two hours to Louisville KY) on Oct 22nd,and I do not want to be in RX limbo. The doc in Louisville messed up and instead of refilling my pain meds with 120, at 4 a day, he must have misread something and refilled them for 100 at 4 a day??? It is a 25 day supply and I am not going to see the new doc before it runs out. Anyway for some reason Caremark always gives me crap over the amount the doc writes if it is not an even number?? I mean honestly it is a matter of wording when it boils down to it. Why should they give a rat's butt what the doc prescribes me and the dosage?? *Sigh*
Sorry for the rant, I just get very angry over the healthcare system issue.
Terry
On 9/27/06, Sandy Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Thanks Mike, We just don't want to do any thing unnecessary,because with any insurance company ,there is a limit to how much they will pay.Randy is 55,if he has to stay on 800mg for the rest of his life that is a lot of money.We just got his Gleevec today.We have BCBS,we only pay 35.00 a month.It cost 6,368.We did try to get a three months supply,no go they wouldn't let us do that.BCBS) Sandy
mburwen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Mayo ought to be pretty good, although I have not heard anything
specific to CML from there. You might look into having the test
analyses done at Mayo since it is likely to have superior equipment and
staff training. As I said before, it is easy to ship blood, and, even
if the blood is 2-3 days old, the quality is still good enough for the
tests.
Randy should look into how far you can push your insurance company.
Fortunately for me, I was not DX until after I was eligible for
Medicare. Medicare and my Blue Cross Medicare supplement pay for
everything in full. I also have a drug policy. 90 days worth of
Gleevec at 600mg/day costs me $30. Before I went on Medicare, I had a
private policy as a self-employed person. It cost a fortune and paid
for little. I empathize with anyone in that position. I've come to
believe strongly that the US health care system is unfair.
Stay in the know. Pulse on the new Yahoo.com. Check it out.
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