I have Humana with no monthly payments. You can also call Medicare and they will look for your best option.
My Motto: Faith and Pills With Love š 18's Dx 1/2004 CML Leukemia Started Gleevec 2/2004 Started Tasigna 9/2009 Started Sprycel 11/2009 Started Ponatinib 1/2015 Doctor Balducci Moffitt Cancer Center > On Sep 14, 2016, at 7:16 PM, Joyce Mesnarich <joy...@htc.net> wrote: > > 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 canāt > remember what it is forā¦.. 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 > (canāt 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. -- -- [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.
