Penny, My husband (the CML warrior) has been on Medicare for 13 years and has Part D coverage. Once he gets through the donut hole and into catastrophic coverage, the first month, his part of payment is around $200 a month. He does have to pay the deductible for Part D and a bit more that I can’t remember what it is for….. usually amounts to close to $1000. If that is unmanageable for you, I would suggest you look into Healthwell Foundation. You can Google them. You will have to fill out some forms, but they are very easy to deal with. I might also add that when you are looking for Part D coverage, especially look at the % you will pay on drugs that are not common (can’t remember the word they have for it). That varies from insurance company to company from 45% to 25%. Of course, you want a company that has the smaller percent. Hope this is of some help. If you have any other questions, feel free to email me personally. Joyce in IL
> On Sep 14, 2016, at 10:04 AM, 'Penny' via CMLHope <cmlhope@googlegroups.com> > wrote: > > Hi, > > I am getting close to retiring and checking out Medicare coverage for sprycel. > Is anyone in the group on Medicare ? > > I must be missing something cause I can't afford these prices! > I am sure someone has been through this before....please help > > Thanks > Penny > Cml 2002 > > -- > -- > [CMLHope] > A support group of http://cmlhope.com > ------------------------------------------------- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "CMLHope" group. > To post to this group, send email to CMLHope@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > cmlhope-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/CMLHope > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "CMLHope" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to cmlhope+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- -- [CMLHope] A support group of http://cmlhope.com ------------------------------------------------- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CMLHope" group. To post to this group, send email to CMLHope@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to cmlhope-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/CMLHope --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CMLHope" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to cmlhope+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.