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Levitra and Medicare Part D
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| My doctor prescribed Levitra. I took the prescription to my pharmacy. I
received four pills for $30. This is the standard price for so-called second
tier drugs under my Humana administered Prescription Drug plan. If I am not
mistaken, the $30 is supposed to be for a month's supply. What constitutes a
month's supply of Levitra??? I don't know exactly what my doctor prescribed,
or why I received just four pills. Is there some way a doctor could write a
prescription for a larger number of pills that would still fall under the
definition of a month's supply? Regards, G.
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| ged wrote:
> My doctor prescribed Levitra. I took the prescription to my pharmacy. I
> received four pills for $30. This is the standard price for so-called second
> tier drugs under my Humana administered Prescription Drug plan. If I am not
> mistaken, the $30 is supposed to be for a month's supply. What constitutes a
> month's supply of Levitra??? I don't know exactly what my doctor prescribed,
> or why I received just four pills. Is there some way a doctor could write a
> prescription for a larger number of pills that would still fall under the
> definition of a month's supply? Regards, G.
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Sorry guys if this rant offends your political and moral feelings.
This situation is pretty typical. Each prescription plan has its own
formulary support notes.
I'm lucky because all but two of my meds are generics so I could shop
for a plan that had a fair break on Levitra and Plavix. OTOH, my wife
has several proprietary meds and my plan wouldn't have worked for her.
I can honestly say that Part D was the toughest nut we ever cracked. My
HMO allows for 6 doses a month (rumor is that they may go to 4 doses in
2007--that will trigger another search--joy!) My HMO Uro writes two
prescriptions, one for 6 tabs a month, a second for an additional 12
each month. I get the first six for the monthly co-pay. The few extras
come from Wal-Mart or Costco and I pay full freight.
You can thank Rep. Hunter (Calif) and Sen. Grassley (Iowa) for their
very vocal "non-support" of E.D. meds in Medicare. They both view sex
for other than reproduction as "recreational." Both have opposed
"grandpa's Viagra." These same gents have opposed legislation would
have shorten drug patents. The have also opposed imports from Canada
and elsewhere.
This "groundswell" of legislative opinion occurred when the GAO found
that Medicaid was paying the whole Viagra tab for ex-Cons who had been
recently released from prison (some of these guys were sex violators).
Grassley and Hunter (with support from the religious-right cheering
section) jumped on that bandwagon and said, "no government money for
E.D. meds." That included Medicare Part-D. At the working level inside
Part D, the govt administrators are turning their back on some plans
include E.D. meds in their plans. Down deep inside, the congressional &
senate support for V, L and C isn't there.
....Lmac
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| Wanderer 2006-09-15, 8:20 am |
| On Thu, 14 Sep 2006 17:50:13 -0400, ged wrote
(in article <eecir0$ilm$1@news04.infoave.net> ):
> My doctor prescribed Levitra. I took the prescription to my pharmacy. I
> received four pills for $30. This is the standard price for so-called second
> tier drugs under my Humana administered Prescription Drug plan. If I am not
> mistaken, the $30 is supposed to be for a month's supply. What constitutes a
> month's supply of Levitra??? I don't know exactly what my doctor prescribed,
> or why I received just four pills. Is there some way a doctor could write a
> prescription for a larger number of pills that would still fall under the
> definition of a month's supply? Regards, G.
Get your doctor to prescribe the highest dose (assuming he hasn't already),
then split the pills in half or quarters. The Levitra pill is a tiny little
sucker, but it can be done. In many cases with ED drugs, less is more anyway.
As for the health insurance quagmire, forget it. Until recently, the max
dosage of Viagra I could get was 5 pills per month for $40... now for some
reason, that's gone up to ten pills for $50. But at 4 - 5 doses per one 100
mg pill, it's still a mighty cheap erection!
Wanderer
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