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Chronic Health Conditions Discussion and Support

elfin

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11. Stelara for me is $12,000 year WITH drug plan

Reply to COLGATE4 (Original post)

Fri Feb 1, 2019, 08:34 PM

Feb 2019

Am not rich enough to have it not matter, nor poor enough to qualify for freebies.

Without my plan, (UHC PPO and Drug Plan), it would cost over $50,000 per year.

I might be able to switch plans, but my coverage is at least stable and many others do not cover it at all, or disallow it after it is started.

Have done so much research online and so many calls to insurance, Janssen, support plans etc. my brain bleeds.

The upside - it has been a miracle drug for me after trying others like Embrel-- this is for wild and crazy plaque/erythrodermic psoriasis that covered nearly my entire body and almost got me thrown into the hospital to regulate my body temp after all lotions/steroids etc. failed to work.

The immune system can turn on you and kill you. This stuff is IMPORTANT, but once something is relegated to a "special" pharmacy all rules and regs go away.

I want the pols running for office mention Big Pharma often as something to correct.

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Incredible costs for a prescription biologic [View all] COLGATE4 Feb 2019 OP

This is so terrible. like other third world countries, we are becoming like other third world CharleyDog Feb 2019 #1

The saddest part is that many 'third world countries' have a better COLGATE4 Feb 2019 #10

Charley - the saddest part is that in many "third world countriets" not only COLGATE4 Mar 2019 #21

The GOP wants to bankrupt and kill us, in that order. BigmanPigman Feb 2019 #2

Yep. Biologics are expensive. Freethinker65 Feb 2019 #3

So what is BIG Pharma's excuse for the ever increasing price of democratisphere Feb 2019 #5

Oh. I am not fooled. I worked for a bit in a university oncology drug discovery lab. Freethinker65 Feb 2019 #6

Don't forget the insane costs of wall to wall 24/7/365 advertising democratisphere Feb 2019 #7

Until our political legislators quit taking campaign contributions aka bribes democratisphere Feb 2019 #4

I thought their CPAs deducted all their development costs at tax time. Enoki33 Feb 2019 #8

They do. But all the TV marketing of the newer drugs COLGATE4 Feb 2019 #9

Stelara for me is $12,000 year WITH drug plan elfin Feb 2019 #11

I'm glad to hear that you're getting good results from the Stelara. COLGATE4 Feb 2019 #12

that must be why my GI struggles to keep me on Remicade demtenjeep Feb 2019 #13

I'd strongly advise you to try to stick it out on Remicade COLGATE4 Feb 2019 #14

My doc has diagnosed that Remicade has failed for me and Stelara is on deck demtenjeep Mar 2019 #15

tool around this website. demtenjeep Mar 2019 #16

https://www.stelarainfo.com/crohns-disease/starting-stelara/janssen-carepath demtenjeep Mar 2019 #17

Unfortunately this offer is not available to COLGATE4 Mar 2019 #18

oh demtenjeep Mar 2019 #19

Yep. Medicare rules. Thanks for the suggestion, though. Other folks COLGATE4 Mar 2019 #20

okay, the one fund that has help for Crohns seems to be at TAF. moriah Mar 2019 #23

Many thanks for the information and suggestions. Both COLGATE4 Mar 2019 #24

Gonna check if any of the copay assistance organizations has a Crohns fund for you... moriah Mar 2019 #22