How to Navigate Life with a Chronic Disease Like T1D and High-Deductible Insurance Plans
Conclusion:So, this is a method to survive a high-deductible insurance plan without breaking the bank. I have done it, so I know it works. Keep in mind: insurance companies feel entitled to screw patients (you are not their customer, your employer is). Don ' t let them do it to you! (Source: Scott's Web Log)
Source: Scott's Web Log - February 8, 2021 Category: Endocrinology Tags: 2021 high-deductible insurance plans insulin rebates test strips Source Type: blogs
Get Humalog or Novolog for About $50/vial TODAY
First, this is NOT another page dedicated to bogus manufacturer Patient Assistance Programs. Having lived with Type 1 diabetes for nearly 50 years, I can honestly tell you I have never met a person who qualified for those fake programs. Ever. Yet as we head into a new year, for people with high-deductible insurance plans, the deductible reset dates often start at " open enrollment " which is in November at many organizations (although some plans use the calendar year as the reset date for deductibles, which means January 1 -- a lousy way to wish patients a happy new year and that ' s slightly over a month away). Other...
Source: Scott's Web Log - October 13, 2020 Category: Endocrinology Tags: Eli Lilly and Company insulin analogs Novo Nordisk drug prices GoodRx prescriptions Source Type: blogs
Get Humalog or Novolog for About $50/vial TODAY
First, this is NOT another page dedicated to bogus manufacturer Patient Assistance Programs. Having lived with Type 1 diabetes for nearly 50 years, I can honestly tell you I have never met a person who qualified for those fake programs. Ever. Yet as we head into a new year, for people with high-deductible insurance plans, the deductible reset dates often start at " open enrollment " which is in November at many organizations (although some plans use the calendar year as the reset date for deductibles, which means January 1 -- a lousy way to wish patients a happy new year and that ' s slightly over a month away). Other...
Source: Scott's Web Log - October 13, 2020 Category: Endocrinology Tags: Eli Lilly and Company insulin analogs Novo Nordisk drug prices GoodRx prescriptions Source Type: blogs
Get Humalog or Novolog for $68/vial TODAY
First, this is NOT another page dedicated to bogus manufacturer Patient Assistance Programs. Having lived with Type 1 diabetes for nearly 50 years, I can honestly tell you I have never met a person who qualified for those fake programs. Ever. Yet as we head into a new year, for people with high-deductible insurance plans, the deductible reset dates often start at " open enrollment " which is in November at many organizations (although some plans use the calendar year as the reset date for deductibles, which means January 1 -- a lousy way to wish patients a happy new year and that ' s slightly over a month away). Other...
Source: Scott's Web Log - October 13, 2020 Category: Endocrinology Tags: Eli Lilly and Company insulin analogs Novo Nordisk drug prices GoodRx prescriptions Source Type: blogs
Get Humalog for $68/vial or Novolog for $72/vial TODAY
First, this is NOT another page dedicated to bogus manufacturer Patient Assistance Programs. Having lived with Type 1 diabetes for nearly 50 years, I can honestly tell you I have never met a person who qualified for those fake programs. Ever. Yet as we head into a new year, for people with high-deductible insurance plans, the deductible reset dates often start at " open enrollment " which is in November at many organizations (although some plans use the calendar year as the reset date for deductibles, which means January 1 -- a lousy way to wish patients a happy new year and that ' s slightly over a month away). Other...
Source: Scott's Web Log - October 13, 2020 Category: Endocrinology Tags: Eli Lilly and Company insulin analogs Novo Nordisk drug prices GoodRx prescriptions Source Type: blogs
" It's the Rx rebates, stupid! "
Although mylast post addressed one realistic solution to an embedded problem in the U.S. healthcare system related to prescriptions of life-sustaining essentials like insulin (which isn ' t a NEW drug; it was discovered in 1921), the problem has never really been explained which is necessary when interacting with lawmakers about potential legislative solutions to the problem of runaway insulin prices. So, this post aims to be an explainer. Insulin is today a prescription medicine (it used to be OTC, and early-generations still are, but with the advent of analog insulin, the drug companies persuaded the FDA to reclassi...
Source: Scott's Web Log - September 29, 2020 Category: Endocrinology Tags: Food and Drug Administration Drug Channels FDA insulin legislation price caps price-caps rebate reform rebates Source Type: blogs
" It's the Rx rebates, stupid! "
Although mylast post addressed one realistic solution to an embedded problem in the U.S. healthcare system related to prescriptions of life-sustaining essentials like insulin (which isn ' t a NEW drug; it was discovered in 1921), the problem has never really been explained which is necessary when interacting with lawmakers about potential legislative solutions to the problem of runaway insulin prices. So, this post aims to be an explainer. Insulin is today a prescription medicine (it used to be OTC) and there are only a handful of manufacturers worldwide. That is the root of the problem, but not due to a lack of competitio...
Source: Scott's Web Log - September 29, 2020 Category: Endocrinology Tags: Food and Drug Administration Drug Channels FDA insulin legislation price caps price-caps rebate reform rebates Source Type: blogs
More Games With U.S. Insulin Prices and Coupons (or why GoodRx works)
This week, I did something unplanned: I bought a vial of Lilly ' s " authorized generic " of its brand-name U-100 insulin analog usually branded as Humalog (insulin lispro rDNA origin) at my neighborhood Walgreens for just $68.38! The reason it was unplanned is because I already met the deductible for my insurance plan, so I hadn ' t expected to deal with this until it resets in January (maybe, I think my new plan covers it without having met the deductible but we ' ll see). But I had a script I last filled before I met the deductible, and the pharmacy sent a text telling me it was time to refill. In reality, I have i...
Source: Scott's Web Log - September 23, 2020 Category: Endocrinology Tags: Admelog Drug Channels drug prices GoodRx Humalog insulin Lilly lispro prescriptions rebates Sanofi Walgreens Source Type: blogs
More Games With U.S. Insulin Prices and Coupons (or why GoodRx works)
This week, I did something unplanned: I bought a vial of Lilly ' s " authorized generic " of its brand-name U-100 insulin analog usually branded as Humalog (insulin lispro rDNA origin) at my neighborhood Walgreens for just $68.38. The reason it was unplanned is because I already met the deductible for my insurance plan, so I hadn ' t expected to deal with this until it resets in January (maybe, I think my new plan covers it without having met the deductible but we ' ll see). But I had a script I last filled before I met the deductible, and the pharmacy sent a text telling me it was time to refill. In reality, I have insuli...
Source: Scott's Web Log - September 23, 2020 Category: Endocrinology Tags: Admelog Drug Channels drug prices GoodRx Humalog insulin Lilly lispro prescriptions rebates Sanofi Walgreens Source Type: blogs
More Games With U.S. Insulin Prices and Coupons
This week, I did something unplanned: I bought 2 vials of Lilly ' s " authorized generic " of its brand-name U-100 insulin analog branded as Humalog (insulin lispro rDNA origin) at my neighborhood Walgreens. The reason it was unplanned is because I already met the deductible for my insurance plan, so I hadn ' t expected to deal with this until it resets in January. But I had a script I last filled before I met the deductible, and the pharmacy sent a text telling me it was time to refill. In reality, I have insulin but its a different brand and a different pharmacy. But Walgreens wants a sale so it was telling me it is time...
Source: Scott's Web Log - September 23, 2020 Category: Endocrinology Tags: Admelog Drug Channels drug prices GoodRx Humalog insulin Lilly prescriptions rebates Sanofi Source Type: blogs
Going Diabetes Old-School During the Pandemic
During the recent pandemic (between March and June 2020, although we are still not completely out of quarantine, we are now in Phase II of reopening), I decided to go old-school on diabetes supplies.Specifically, I went back to one of the many old blood glucose meters I ' d saved over the years. All of them still worked, although I discarded a few for which test strips are no longer sold or had leaked battery acid in the battery compartment.I made a notable exception for one particular meter model...Specifically, I had saved a few of theOneTouch Ultra (1) meters I had in my possession. I also had a few OneTouch Ultra 2 met...
Source: Scott's Web Log - June 20, 2020 Category: Endocrinology Tags: 2020 Diabetes J & Johnson and Johnson old-school OneTouch testing supplies Source Type: blogs
Going Diabetes Old-School During the Pandemic
During the recent pandemic (between March and June 2020, although we are still not completely out of quarantine, we are now in Phase II of reopening), I decided to go old-school on diabetes supplies.Specifically, I went back to one of the many old blood glucose meters I ' d saved over the years. All of them still worked, although I discarded a few for which test strips are no longer sold or had leaked battery acid in the battery compartment.I made a notable exception for one particular meter model...Specifically, I had saved a few of theOneTouch Ultra (1) meters I had in my possession. I also had a few OneTouch Ultra 2 met...
Source: Scott's Web Log - June 20, 2020 Category: Endocrinology Tags: 2020 Diabetes J & Johnson and Johnson old-school OneTouch testing supplies Source Type: blogs
States Aren't Waiting for DC to Regulate Insulin Prices, They're Doing It Themselves
Back in March 2018, I co-authored (along with Scott King, the former editor ofDiabetes Health magazine) an article (catch the article athttps://www.diabeteshealth.com/good-bad-diabetes-advocacy-world/ for reference) about some patient advocacy wins and challenges ahead. One of the challenges ahead was about runaway insulin prices.We started to see action on runaway insulin prices in state capitals happen a few years ago.Nevada got an early start in 2017, introducing a transparency bill that requires drugmakers who made insulin specifically to report pricing, costs, and rebates. It was signed into law by the state ' s Repub...
Source: Scott's Web Log - February 18, 2020 Category: Endocrinology Tags: 2020 insulin insulin prices legislation state laws Source Type: blogs
States Aren't Waiting for DC to Regulate Insulin Prices, They're Doing It Themselves
Back in March 2018, I co-authored (along with Scott King, the former editor ofDiabetes Health magazine) an article (catch the article athttps://www.diabeteshealth.com/good-bad-diabetes-advocacy-world/ for reference) about some patient advocacy wins and challenges ahead. One of the challenges ahead was about runaway insulin prices.We started to see action on runaway insulin prices in state capitals happen a few years ago.Nevada got an early start in 2017, introducing a transparency bill that requires drugmakers who made insulin specifically to report pricing, costs, and rebates. It was signed into law by the state ' s Repub...
Source: Scott's Web Log - February 18, 2020 Category: Endocrinology Tags: 2020 insulin insulin prices legislation state laws Source Type: blogs
States Aren't Waiting for DC to Regulate Insulin Prices, They're Doing Themselves
Back in March 2018, I co-authored (along with Scott King, the former editor ofDiabetes Health magazine) an article (catch the article athttps://www.diabeteshealth.com/good-bad-diabetes-advocacy-world/ for reference) about some patient advocacy wins and challenges ahead. One of the challenges ahead was about runaway insulin prices.We started to see action on runaway insulin prices in state capitals happen a few years ago.Nevada got an early start in 2017, introducing a transparency bill that requires drugmakers who made insulin specifically to report pricing, costs, and rebates. It was signed into law by the state ' s Repub...
Source: Scott's Web Log - February 18, 2020 Category: Endocrinology Tags: 2020 insulin insulin prices legislation state laws Source Type: blogs
