Hi James and I had the same problem a few years ago. There are organizations that will help you pay the co pay. The leukemia society is one and others. Good luck
My Motto: Faith and Pills Jeanie 🐟🐟18,s Dx 1/2004. CML Leukemia Started Gleevec 2/2004 Started Tasigna 9/2009 Started Sprycel 11/2009 Started Ponatinib January 2015 Dr Balducci Moffitt Cancer Center > On Nov 1, 2015, at 3:04 PM, perk <[email protected]> wrote: > > My wife and I have insurance through the Healthcare Marketplace (Obama care) > where they pay most of the premium amount. Without any notification, they > stopped paying and the insurance company dropped us, even though I paid our > amount. My wife found out by trying to have a prescription refilled and told > at the pharmacy that we had no insurance. I take 70 MG of Sprycel and the > cost for a 30 day supply is $7000.00 without insurance. I got everything > worked out with the Healthcare Marketplace and my insurance carrier so we're > good for now. > > I am suppose to go on Medicare soon and pay for a Part D plan to pay for > prescription medicine but the insurance only pays 75% of the cost. I don't > think I can pay 25% of $7000.00 every month. Any advice on this matter will > be greatly appreciated. > > I wish I could stay on the Obama care plan I have now, as it has been > affordable for my wife and I. Marco Rubio was on TV this morning saying if he > were elected president, he would repeal Obama care. Many GOP presidential > hopefuls have said the same thing. I know the plan is not perfect but it has > worked well for my wife and I for the last 2 years and made it affordable to > purchase a Tier 5 drug. > > James in Texas > >> On Friday, October 30, 2015 at 6:16:02 PM UTC-5, Suzieq wrote: >> Hello my fellow Survivors: >> >> Well, my hubby and I had a great big surprise when he went to refill his >> prescription for blood pressure medicine a couple of weeks ago. He found out >> that we had been dropped by our previous insurance as of September 30th. >> Wasn't that sweet......no notice what so ever! Thank goodness that I have a >> few bottles of Gleevec on hand as it came time to reorder. Anyhoo, he put >> us in for COBRA and got us started as of last Friday. When we sold our >> business last spring, the new owners were to keep our insurance going for >> at least one year after the sale, but that did not happen. You cannot >> trust people today to do what they tell you they will do. At least we found >> out in the time period to get the other started. Now, we are covered for >> the next 18 months. >> >> Here is what I wanted to tell you that I learned.......my husband had me >> call to order my Gleevec as there was a chance that I was still covered. >> The pharmacy tech told me that "no, I wasn't until Dec. 1st" (not true now, >> have a new card) anyway, I just asked her what the cost of 100mgs. of >> Gleevec for one month would cost if one had to pay cash money. She checked >> and came back on and said "$3000". I was stunned.....I told her that I sure >> thought that the price would have gone down, instead it is like it went up >> more since I first started taking it. The last price I had while I was >> still doing 400mgs. and that was around 4 and 1/2 years ago, it was getting >> really close to that $6000 mark for 1 month. The reason I knew the cost, >> the stupid pharmacy I ordered thru the mail from included a receipt of the >> cost. I always thought it odd for them to do that since I paid a co-pay of >> 25$ back then, but oh well, it was interesting to watch the price rise each >> month. I kept thinking that Novartis wouldn't have dibs on the Patent any >> longer by now and the price would drop and Generic brand would be in the >> works. Guess that is what I get for thinking! :) >> >> Let's all keep looking up! >> >> Suzieq > > -- > -- > [CMLHope] > A support group of http://cmlhope.com > ------------------------------------------------- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "CMLHope" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/CMLHope > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "CMLHope" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- -- [CMLHope] A support group of http://cmlhope.com ------------------------------------------------- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CMLHope" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/CMLHope --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CMLHope" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
