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 $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
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
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 (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
Insulin in the Human Body
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What is insulin?
To do the tasks, the body needs energy and sugar can be considered a good source of energy to be obtained from inside. As a matter of fact, sugar cannot be directly reached to most of your cells. Thus, there are cells emitted from the pancreas, which will release the sugar in the human body which is termed as insulin.
Insulin is a hormone that is secreted by the pancreas that is responsible for the regulation ...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - August 2, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Chandan Singh Tags: health and fitness Source Type: blogs
Human insulin may be a lower-cost option for some people with diabetes
Of the estimated 23 million people in the US who have been diagnosed with diabetes, more than 30% take daily insulin injections to control their blood sugar (glucose) levels. Chances are good that someone you know has been startled by the high cost of this medication.
The high price of insulin
Prices for this essential medication have been rising faster than overall health care costs. From 2002 to 2013 prices tripled, doubling again from 2012 to 2016 and continuing upward since. Patients can be charged hundreds or even thousands of dollars for insulin at the pharmacy. And insulin costs can vary depending on type and amount...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - June 3, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Elizabeth Bashoff, MD Tags: Diabetes Drugs and Supplements Health Source Type: blogs
My Trial With Sanofi's Admelog, The Biosimilar Version of Humalog
A while back Iblogged about the emergence of biosimilar insulin in the U.S., more than a decade after I studied the topic and discovered some troubling reasons none existed. Since then, in spite of top officials at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services advocating for a more robust biosimilars market in the U.S., we have seen fewer rather than more, so that ' s not working out so well for the Trump Administration ' s promise to bring drug prices way down so far. In late 2018, Merck quietly pulled the plug on its own Lantus biosimilar which was to be branded as Lusduna Nexvue (see moreHERE for details). ...
Source: Scott's Web Log - April 9, 2019 Category: Endocrinology Tags: Eli Lilly and Company follow-on insulin analogs 2019 Admelog biosimilars generics Humalog insulin prices Medicare Sanofi Source Type: blogs
My Trial With Sanofi's Admelog, The Biosimilar Version of Humalog
A while back Iblogged about the emergence of biosimilar insulin in the U.S., more than a decade after I studied the topic and discovered some troubling reasons none existed. Since then, in spite of top officials at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services advocating for a more robust biosimilars market in the U.S., we have seen fewer rather than more, so that ' s not working out so well for the Trump Administration ' s promise to bring drug prices way down so far. In late 2018, Merck quietly pulled the plug on its own Lantus biosimilar which was to be branded as Lusduna Nexvue (see moreHERE for details). ...
Source: Scott's Web Log - April 9, 2019 Category: Endocrinology Tags: Eli Lilly and Company follow-on insulin analogs 2019 Admelog biosimilars generics Humalog insulin prices Medicare Sanofi Source Type: blogs
A Decade+ Later, Biosimilar Insulin Is Here
More than a decade ago (the article I published on my blog was originally posted on January 8, 2007 although I began research into the subject the preceding summer, see the article athttp://blog.sstrumello.com/2007/01/business-of-diabetes-real-story-behind.html for more background), I asked a number of very legitimate questions (some of which were later answered, others were not), with the most notable one being about why so many other diabetes medicines had " generics " but insulin did not (in spite of the fact that its patents had expired years ago). Unfortunately, in my research, I discovered the some of the sordi...
Source: Scott's Web Log - April 21, 2018 Category: Endocrinology Tags: insulin analogs 2018 biogenerics biosimilars Source Type: blogs
A Decade+ Later, Biosimilar Insulin Is Here
More than a decade ago (the article I published on my blog was originally posted on January 8, 2007 although I began research into the subject the preceding summer, see the article athttp://blog.sstrumello.com/2007/01/business-of-diabetes-real-story-behind.html for more background), I asked a number of very legitimate questions (some of which were later answered, others were not), with the most notable one being about why so many other diabetes medicines had " generics " but insulin did not (in spite of the fact that its patents had expired years ago). Unfortunately, in my research, I discovered the some of the sordi...
Source: Scott's Web Log - April 21, 2018 Category: Endocrinology Tags: insulin analogs 2018 biogenerics biosimilars Source Type: blogs
An August Appendectomy
In August, (one month ago today)I had an appendectomy. There was very little drama involved, the doctors office visit led straight to a same day CT scan and an emergency review with the radiologist who informed me the appendix couldn ' t be seen but the colon was most definitely inflamed and I should go to the ER if it got worse. To the ER I went that night, to a hospital where the D Care is very good (had that going for it). They admitted me under observation, coursing enough pain medications through me to make me sick for the next 14 hours. The plan was to do another CT the next day. In observation, as I was trying not t...
Source: The D-Log Cabin - September 20, 2017 Category: Endocrinology Authors: HVS Source Type: blogs
Novo Nordisk Settles Qui Tam Suit
Novo Nordisk is in the midst of settling a whistleblower lawsuit that alleges that the company ran a “white-coat marketing scheme” to pump up sales of NovoLog, Victoza, and Levemir. The complaint was recently unsealed as part of the settlement process and alleges that Novo Nordisk partnered up with a clinical education company, Healthstar’s PT, to set up a program – “Changing Life with Diabetes” – which hired and trained certified diabetes educators.
The whistleblowers, two former managers, claim that since 2006, Novo ran the program to gain access to physician practices, where the educators would provide th...
Source: Policy and Medicine - May 5, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: Thomas Sullivan - Policy & Medicine Writing Staff Source Type: blogs
