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Paying for your seizure pills with no insurance?

Sun, 05/13/2012 - 13:07
Hello, Living without insurance should not even be an issue in america but some how it is and the people who need it the most is suffering without it, some of us with epilepsy can do alot if only we had our medicine everyday on time but alot of us are not blessed enough to have the money or insurance to refill our medicine when it runs out and the state denies most of us disability if only the state would provide us with the medicine most of us wouldn't need disability because we would be capable of working and going to school or driving and taking care of our families who ever has went thru it im sure you know how frustrating this is, if anyone knows a program that helps you with medicine i would like to know because i am about to graduate college soon and i dont know if the place im going to will have insurance so any help will be great thank you!

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Re: Paying for your seizure pills with no insurance?

Submitted by KB11480 on Sun, 2012-05-27 - 21:28
I have been without insurance for over a year and was able to work something out with my neurologist and my pharmacy. My neurologist continued to prescribe my meds for me and agreed to see me on an as needed basis and for a either free or a small fee. I use Kroger pharmacy and if you ask them to "match Costco" they will and generic meds are cheaper without insurance than they are if you pay the generic price, typically.

Re: Paying for your seizure pills with no insurance?

Submitted by jcroper on Wed, 2012-06-20 - 09:32

I started graduate school just as I was adding a second medication. The first was already expensive without insurance, and I was buying it from a Canadian pharmacy for about $120/month. I told my doctor I was concerned about the cost of adding a second med and he mentioned that some of his patients had found good prices at Costco.

I checked around where I was living and didn't actually get match prices any better than the Costco pharmacy itself. They had a special prescription discount program for members without insurance. Initially, when both meds had just come off patent, it was $120-140/month for two seizure meds and a sleep aid. The price dropped about 30% over a couple of years. At a normal retail pharmacy, I would have paid 3-4 times that price. You have to pay the $50/yr membership fee, but I was also commuting to school and we calculated that between the meds and gas it would more than pay for itself.

I didn't qualify for a lot of the prescription aid programs, I think because I was living with family for cheap and my expenses weren't as high as some. Never mind that each semester I was earning just a little more than my tuition costs for the next semester.

I started graduate school just as I was adding a second medication. The first was already expensive without insurance, and I was buying it from a Canadian pharmacy for about $120/month. I told my doctor I was concerned about the cost of adding a second med and he mentioned that some of his patients had found good prices at Costco.

I checked around where I was living and didn't actually get match prices any better than the Costco pharmacy itself. They had a special prescription discount program for members without insurance. Initially, when both meds had just come off patent, it was $120-140/month for two seizure meds and a sleep aid. The price dropped about 30% over a couple of years. At a normal retail pharmacy, I would have paid 3-4 times that price. You have to pay the $50/yr membership fee, but I was also commuting to school and we calculated that between the meds and gas it would more than pay for itself.

I didn't qualify for a lot of the prescription aid programs, I think because I was living with family for cheap and my expenses weren't as high as some. Never mind that each semester I was earning just a little more than my tuition costs for the next semester.

Re: Paying for your seizure pills with no insurance?

Submitted by jasssmit on Wed, 2012-06-20 - 00:39
I made the HUGE mistake recently of not getting my rx refilled and nearly killed myself on accident because I didn't have insurance nor a job.  I learned the hard way that the county hospital here in Indianapolis works with people such as myself.  After spending 5 days in the hospital and getting lectured from the docs and family, I got a 90 day supply for only $5 plus 2 refills on top of that.  See if the county hospital where you live has something similar.

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