Wow thats a lot of money for the meds. Big Pharma is in business to make money I don't know what they spend in research and trials but I bet thats a lot too. I remember reading about a closterial drug a while back that a Pharma company had invested millions in only to find it was causing some serious side effects and death during trials.
I have insurance and lucky to have it since with my other problems I don't think I'd qualify for trials.
With the insurance payments and the drugs it's about 500 a month. A bargain I now see.
LUV2RYDE said
Apr 23, 2013
I got lucky. I was going to start triple treatment had all the meds my Insurance fit the bill for everything but my copays about 65 X 3 ....and then a wonderful trial came along. So none of my meds were open or anything after I got on
the trial I gave them to my RN cordinator and told him to give them to someone who needed the help. I thank God for the trial I am on. But yes it is crazy to pay that much money.
joe oil said
Mar 21, 2013
My insurance would only pay 50% of Incevik. Incevik med assistance payed the first $ 10K. Out of pocket for me was about $20K. Riba/Peg/Procrit, freee. Hope this s works.
Zlikster said
Mar 21, 2013
my friends back in early 2000s had to pay cca 30k $ for 1year of Riba + Interferon...they got bank credit loans just for it (and were paying it back to the banks for years) ;/ Medicare here (Bosnia) now covers fully Riba+Interferon (i got some inside info, that they get Riba for free, but pay for interferon shots. 1 year of Riba and Interferon now costs them 18k $).
i pay for PCR and some blood test from my own pocket, since insurance covers only 1-2 PCR tests (pre tx, and 12th week)...i do intend, if i fail this therapy, to save money for Sofosbuvir, and i think it will be round 30k-100k$ for 3 months of pills. insane! i will prolly have to spend my life savings for it.
seems time of the heros in labs that didn't want to patent life saving compaunds is over ;(
Butcheeyboy said
Mar 21, 2013
I just can not get over the cost of meds for the triple - Incivik-Riba-Pega/Interf treatment
I always got a copy of the bill every month from CuraScript (they provided meds via FedEx-overnite from Orlando, Florida)
$2,600 for 4 shots a month
$696 for 1 bottle of Riba a month
$17,000 for 1 box of Incivik a month for 3 months
So total cost for 48 weeks worth of meds:
$90,552
That's not counting all the blood work and blood transfusions.
I just don't understand how they can expect people to get treatment if they have no
health/little coverage. I thank God that my co-pays were very very minimal
I have seen on another website info about the new meds that are being blocked
by the big makers of current meds and the new meds have a better success rate and are much cheaper
And the side effects are nothing compared to what current meds put us through.
Well glad I am 48 weeks finished as of this week and UND
Just curious but are some of you out there having to pay the full cost of this treatment?
-- Edited by Butcheeyboy on Friday 22nd of March 2013 01:43:03 AM
-- Edited by Butcheeyboy on Friday 22nd of March 2013 01:43:50 AM
Wow thats a lot of money for the meds. Big Pharma is in business to make money I don't know what they spend in research and trials but I bet thats a lot too. I remember reading about a closterial drug a while back that a Pharma company had invested millions in only to find it was causing some serious side effects and death during trials.
I have insurance and lucky to have it since with my other problems I don't think I'd qualify for trials.
With the insurance payments and the drugs it's about 500 a month. A bargain I now see.
I got lucky. I was going to start triple treatment had all the meds my Insurance fit the bill for everything but my copays about 65 X 3 ....and then a wonderful trial came along. So none of my meds were open or anything after I got on
the trial I gave them to my RN cordinator and told him to give them to someone who needed the help. I thank God for the trial I am on. But yes it is crazy to pay that much money.
My insurance would only pay 50% of Incevik. Incevik med assistance payed the first $ 10K. Out of pocket for me was about $20K. Riba/Peg/Procrit, freee. Hope this s
works.
i pay for PCR and some blood test from my own pocket, since insurance covers only 1-2 PCR tests (pre tx, and 12th week)...i do intend, if i fail this therapy, to save money for Sofosbuvir, and i think it will be round 30k-100k$ for 3 months of pills. insane! i will prolly have to spend my life savings for it.
seems time of the heros in labs that didn't want to patent life saving compaunds is over ;(
I just can not get over the cost of meds for the triple - Incivik-Riba-Pega/Interf treatment
I always got a copy of the bill every month from CuraScript (they provided meds via FedEx-overnite from Orlando, Florida)
$2,600 for 4 shots a month
$696 for 1 bottle of Riba a month
$17,000 for 1 box of Incivik a month for 3 months
So total cost for 48 weeks worth of meds:
$90,552
That's not counting all the blood work and blood transfusions.
I just don't understand how they can expect people to get treatment if they have no
health/little coverage. I thank God that my co-pays were very very minimal
I have seen on another website info about the new meds that are being blocked
by the big makers of current meds and the new meds have a better success rate and are much cheaper
And the side effects are nothing compared to what current meds put us through.
Well glad I am 48 weeks finished as of this week and UND
Just curious but are some of you out there having to pay the full cost of this treatment?
-- Edited by Butcheeyboy on Friday 22nd of March 2013 01:43:03 AM
-- Edited by Butcheeyboy on Friday 22nd of March 2013 01:43:50 AM