My husband has been on Betaseron, IVIG, and Tasabyri. He built up antibodies on the betaseron and tasbryi.
If you have Medicare and Medicaid, you will usually get your drugs covered by the Medicare prescription drug benefit (Part D) and the Extra Help program. Extra Help is the federal program that pays for most of the costs of Medicare drug coverage if you meet the eligibility requirements. In some limited cases, Medicaid may cover drugs that Medicare does not cover.
As long as you have Medicare Part D your drugs will be covered.
Call Medicare if you have questions.
at first it was just like spotting but now its aot like a period (as of today). I am on betaseron and I didn't know if it could mess with your period like tha or make your breasts sore.. (fatigue is a normal ms symptom tho so that doesn't concern me except its been worse lately). Plus.. I have been noticing that its harder for me 2 hold it when I have to pee and smetimes it leaks (which again could be ms related). I'm just worried and really can't do a test yet..
I've been on Betaseron since a year after I was diagnosed in 2000. On August 20th, I quit taking Betaseron cold turkey when I finally received my new oral medication Tecfidera. For the last few days I have been dealing with horrible body aches, diarrhea, cold sweats & the inability to eat (not feeling sick, just not being hungry or interested in eating). I do not have a fever, a cough, allergies or anything else I can conclude to be at fault for these annoying symptoms.
Besides Liver Transplant Centers (where you MUST be treated to have your cirrhosis and portal hypertension managed) usually take both Medicaid and Medicare for payment so there is no advantage to Medicare. In fact Medicare is very expensive. You say you have one doctor. Any one doctor can NOT treat all of your health conditions and certainly not your liver disease. You will have to make sure the liver transplant center takes Medicaid. This should be the first think you do.
I have medicare in California I will enroll in it next month,I have liver transplant with hcv and cirrhosis ,I need to find out how medicare and if medicare pay for sovaldi and olysio.
This is random i know. So i faxed over my new adress and stuff for medicare and its been literally almost a month since and still waiting for approval and i was just wondering if im not sure if i have it yet that i can just go into the hospital in the outpatient section for treatment because im literally almost 4 months preg and still have not seen a doc. even for an ultrasound for christ sake.... can somebody tell me how i can get immediate care?
I'm three weeks into Betaseron . . . and am pleased to hear all of the positive news.
The specialist at UCSF is switching me to Tysabri and has told me to go ahead and stop my Betaseron. It has now been 2 shots that I missed (well didn't take) and for the past 2 days I have been feeling like someone beat the crud outta me.
My husband is insisting it is cuz I am not taking my shots. I don't see how that can be. We went to UCSF Monday night (4 hr drive), had my Dr appt Tues which took 4 hrs.
I am close to Medicare age, and have a low viral load, so my doctor says my insurance won't cover Harvoni. Anyone know what Medicare's guidelines are? Do I have to be sympomatic to qualify? It's pretty frustrating knowing that there is now an easy cure, that I can't get. So I'm hoping the cost will come down soon, or Medicare will be more generous than my insurance!
I called Gilead and the person there told me that Gilead will NOT give any financial assistance to ANYONE on Medicare Part D. I did some research and found out that most Part D plans DO NOT cover Solvadi and even if you do get approved through an appeal, you will still be responsible for 5% of the total cost which is exceedingly high (5% of $84,000). PAN will only pay at most $7500 of this total.
Hi there,
I'm glad they are keeping an eye on your liver enzymes since you are on betaseron. They should run a CBC and thyroid too every so often. Sometimes they don't run the thyroid panel though as a general rule and you may have to request it.
Doesn't seem they ranges are extremely out of the average, but none the less it's good Dr. is keeping a watch - though they should have called you and not the other way around. Seems to be the norm these days for many, unfortunately.
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