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Post Medicare Drugs
Posted on 4/25/23 at 5:24 pm
Posted on 4/25/23 at 5:24 pm
Pre-Medicare my wife’s Ozempic medicine for her diabetes was free with our company insurance. Now that we are Medicare age, the cost is outrageous. In January I had to pay our annual $500 deductible. Then it was $13/mo after that. That is until May, when we hit the ‘donut hole’. Now it’s $1300/mo. I’m pretty well off and I can’t afford it. This is insanity that once your Medicare age, some drugs that you need for a healthy lifestyle are no longer affordable. Am I missing something?
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Posted on 4/25/23 at 5:58 pm to RB5
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when we hit the ‘donut hole’
I never really understood that. How much do you have to pay before you reach the other side?
Posted on 4/25/23 at 6:54 pm to RB5
quote:You can definitely attempt to reverse her out of diabetes for way less than that per month.
Now it’s $1300/mo. I’m pretty well off and I can’t afford it. This is insanity that once your Medicare age, some drugs that you need for a healthy lifestyle are no longer affordable. Am I missing something?
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Posted on 4/25/23 at 7:09 pm to RB5
Curious as to how long has she been on the jab and how much weight has she lost?
Also, how does this work? Was it a typo?
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I’m pretty well off and I can’t afford it.
Also, how does this work? Was it a typo?
Posted on 4/25/23 at 7:58 pm to BigPerm30
I’m not paying $1300/mo, no matter how well off I am. That number is ridiculous imo.
Posted on 4/26/23 at 8:04 am to Big Scrub TX
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You can definitely attempt to reverse her out of diabetes for way less than that per month.
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Let me summarize Virta Health.
Eat clean keto with macros of 30 total carbs/day and protein of 119 grams/day.
They provide a meter that reads both glucose and ketones (it's a private labeled keto mojo meter). They want you in nutritional ketosis to burn fat rather than carbs.
You get a health coach to consult with and provide support.
Posted on 4/26/23 at 8:53 am to OysterPoBoy
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How much do you have to pay before you reach the other side?
It’s plan specific . Could be $500… could be $3-4,000. No real rhyme or reason to it . And often nobody ever explains this part upon signing up for plans .
I hate it . And I always get bitched at for it in the pharmacy as to why I jacked up blanches’ insulin pens from $8.35 to $750. ( it’s not my decision.. and then I bring up the magic phrase “donut hole” and the people act like I have 3 heads. Then I get to explain that to them)
This post was edited on 4/26/23 at 8:53 am
Posted on 4/26/23 at 4:41 pm to RB5
You should be paying 25% of the cost when you are in the coverage gap until catastrophic coverage begins. I don't know how much Ozempic is, but $1300 seems really high if that's 25%.
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