HOOOOOOOLY CRAAAAAAAAPPPPPPPPP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[sugerbear]

just got my 1st ins claim for the rumicade infusion!!!!!!!!!

are ya sittin down?????????????

10,000 DOLLARS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!(+/- a hundred)

and im supposed to get 6-8 of these a year??

ins better pay or ....................

wish me luck.

[Popeye]

not sure how people without insurance do it.

[Jack]

My daughter takes those treatments.  They aren't cheap but seem to be helping.

[Charlie]

not sure how people without insurance do it.

I was gonna make a comment about the health insurance debate, but decided not to.  Hope Sugarbears insurance picks it up.

[Al in AK]

Sugarbear,
I had to look up rumicade infusion to see what you were talking about. I found this online, and was wondering if it might help you any.

http://www.healingwell.com/community/default.aspx?f=38&m=1043934

Good Luck,

Al in AK

[sugerbear]

interesting site. thanks. i'll follow it for a while.

[T-Bird]

The last nine months before I had my heart transplant I was on a IV system called Milrinone. It started out costing 5 grand a week then went to 10 grand a week about four months from transplant.
I was Lucky that I had good insurance, I was told by the time I got my transplant my insurance had already spent 1.5 million on me. It's been six years now and doing great, but have to take about 30 pills a day to a tune of about 27 grand a year in pills.....thank goodness for insurance!

[shortleg]

  What condition are you takeing it for?
Doctor took me of that and put me on
Humeria,I use an injection pin one time a week.
        Shortleg[Dave]

[shortleg]

  One more thing, the drug company has a program where
it only cost me 5 bucks a month.
          Shortleg[Dave]

[sugerbear]

rhumatoid arthritis. dr will change to another drug if this doesn't work.
i'm still on a loading schedule.

[Gilligan]

Wow!  That's expensive.  We hope your insurance covers it for you.

[dickb]

I am working in the Czech Republic for a year or so.  Before I left, I went to Walgreens for a 3 month supply of flomax, blood pressure med, and crestor.  All old guy meds.  They wanted $630. I guess I had hit the "donut hole" in my medicare part D.  It cost me $80 for the GP to prescribe 2 of the meds and $250 for a urologist for the other. That doesn't count the $250 or so I pay back to the govt for medicare. I told them to keep them.  Here in CZ, they have national health.  The 2 DR. visits were free and the 3 months worth of meds were $15.