My 72 year old husband has been diagnosed with Parkinsons-MSA and is struggling with blood pressure instability. His neurologist wants him to take Northera droxidopa, but it costs approx. $2400 per month. We can not afford this. We do NOT have prescription drug coverage. Is there any assistance available to help with this drug therapy please?
In 2018, catastrophic coverage starts when you have paid $5,000 out of pocket, about $7,509 in total drug costs. If your total drug costs are more than $7,509 in 2018, all the Medicare Prescription Drug Plans will cover at least 95% of your drug costs for the rest of that year.
You'll still spend some money, but not near as much as you're spending now. Check the avenues some others have posted and check my answer out. Based on what you said, you could go from $28,800 in annual cost to $8,574.....based on the Medicare formula above.
One other thing. GoodRx.Com is a great site to check drug prices. Northera at Wal-Mart is $2,415 for 90 tablets at 100mg each.
Good luck to you.
If the doctor can't help you (and some are not really interested in anything besides writing scrips for outlandishly expensive meds) maybe a SW or another Dr. I wouldn't just give up.
I am not familiar with this drug, so I don't know what kind of expectations the dr has for your hubby. Is it experimental? IF your hubby is being treated at a teaching hospital (one that is affiliated with a medical school) this gives the docs more leeway in helping patients afford the meds. Sometimes the drug companies write off a certain number of patients---I wish you luck, this is very depressing, a med that can possibly make a huge difference in hub's life and it's financially out of reach.