copaxone cost

Copaxone is made by Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. For more information, visit the Copaxone website, or call Shared Solutions at 1-800-887-8100.

What is the best way to get help paying for copaxone or is there a generic version that is less expensive? I was hoping to start taking it soon, but Im afraid I can't afford it. Also, has anyone taken the new oral version? Is it less expensive? I was advised not to use it but I certainly will if I can afford it. Plus, what are the other benefits of using copaxone othr than slowing down the formation of new lesions. Will I get my energy back? Will my concentration get better?

Do you think that maybe she misunderstood you? I'm on Copaxone and it cost about the same price. My copay is $15.00/month, my insurance covers the rest. I would call your insurance company and ask them how much it will be. If your insurance doesn't deal with shared solutions try calling Pression RX.

If copaxone has been around for so long, why hasn't the price come down? Just curious.

For me hospitalizations, infusions of steriods, wheel chairs, altering my house, nursing care, etc will cost more than Copaxone. Then there is quality of life. I am not sure where my disease will go but I have met many MS patients who did not have the advantage of DMDs when they were diagnosed but they all say I am so lucky to have a chance to slow the progression. My MS Specialist says permanent damage is done without symptoms.

Took my Copaxone today, for the first time in six months. I've been off it because I couldn't afford it. Well, after my leg started acting wonky again, I went to the neuro and told him I was ready to get back on Copaxone. (This was when I still thought the copay was $75, like last time.) Then we started the process of financial assistance....

00 every month just for Copaxone. The other drugs cost another $400.00. This leaves me with a lot of year left when money runs out. Assistance Fund helped a year ago ,however they only help if you have know insurance. I think I was a mistake. Need help.

My friend reduced her dose of Copaxone to 10mg instead of 20, a day about a month ago to try and save money. I told her I thought that was playing with fire and she might come to regret it down the road. Will this hurt her in the long run or is half a dose sufficient? She's been on Copaxone for at least 5 years.

Found this website when I was looking up the cost of copaxone. It seems to answer some questions for us newly dx that are looking to do some research about this disease to try and understand what in the world is happening to us !!! I hope I am allowed to post it , sorry if I am not. http://ms.about.

I suspect SS got your insurance information from the prescribing physician, Imeiser. At least I hope our health care system isn't so out of control that my insurance pays $8684 a quarter while yours pays nothing. Shared Solutions' program covers or waives the co-pay (I think up to $50 a month), not the basic cost of the Copaxone. Otherwise there wouldn't be US citizens here who can't afford to take this DMD.

My insurance prescription coverage only covers generic drugs and since there is no generic drug for Copaxone it would cost me $10,000 for a 3 month supply! I obviously do not have that kind of money, not really sure who could afford that but anyway... I was working with Shared Solutions and their medication assistance only to be told that I was inelidgeable for the assistance.

The MS Society is calling for the scrapping of a scheme set up in 2004 to provide Betaferon, Copaxone, Avonex and Rebif to patients at an approximate cost of £8000 each a year. The price paid by the NHS was supposed to fall if the drugs proved not to be cost effective but htis has not happened even though research haws shown that 10000 recipients would have been better off with a placebo.

market, will be more expensive than injectable competitors such as Biogen Idec Inc.’s Avonex, Merck KGaA’s Rebif and Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd.’s Copaxone, which cost between about $2,800 and $3,200, for a standard month’s supply, according to the Web site destinationrx.com. “Gilenya pricing is based on the value it will deliver patients, the scientific innovation it represents and our investment in studies to support the product,” Althoff said. The U.S.

Anyone here one with a diagnosis of MS and is having trouble getting disease modifying drugs, such as Copaxone or Rebif, due to lack of insurance, insurance company unwilling to pay or trouble with pharmaceutical company please tell your story as to why.

There is help available for the cost of DMDs - some from manufacturers and some from the NMSS I believe. Cost should not be a hindrance to getting something that can help you!

I hear you. I found out yesterday that my individual BCBS plan won't cover Copaxone. My yearly maximum prescription benefit is $2500 and this will cost "somewhere between $1700 and $2200 per month." Apparently they do not consider it a medical necessity -- like I would choose to inject myself daily just for fun! So I have to wait now and find out how to apply for NORD assistance. I'm not comfortable signing up for some online program for fear it'll be a scam.

I use to be on my parents insurance and didn't really think that my MS was all that bad and then I started thinking more and more and it's bothering me know that I cannot get my copaxone for the MS. I have a little girl that cries cause well I am going through some issues that I didn't go through before and I just don't know what to do.

Stinky for the insurance company to not approve the three times weekly dosing - it has been proven and for right now it is absolutely the same cost as the daily copaxone. TEVA set it up that way to be able to switch patients to the new dosing - too bad your insurance balks at that and perhaps your neurologist needs to be more assertive. Seriously, i am sorry you have MS but we figured that for quite some time.

1Moore, I have flown several times with my copaxone. First, call SS and tell them you want one of their travel wallets for the syringes if you don't already have one. It is a hard shelled case that will hold all your things - they even sent me a second autoinjector to keep in the travel case. The letter from the doctor isn't necessary - just take one of the prescription labels off the box and put it in your travel case.

I'm stressing about the cost of drugs. I don't even have a ballpark idea of what this is going to be like. I guess none of these drugs go on the first or second tier of my prescription coverage formulary. What happens if you don't have the money? Do some DMDs cost less than others?

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