Posted by Ame Sans Vie on March 10, 2005, at 10:55:12
In reply to Re: Parnate 20mg, Day 6, posted by cubbybear on March 10, 2005, at 1:24:19
> I still wonder, though, if you don't have insurance, wouldn't high doses get to be quite expensive? And if you are covered by insurance, hasn't the insurance company established a limit as to how high a dose they will pay for? Seems that these people have mastered the art of denying payment for every reason imaginable, so I wonder if they've set a maximum reimbursement vis a vis Parnate dosage. Just curious. cubbybear
At the moment I still rely on Medicaid to pay for any medications I take aside from clonazepam, meprobamate and Seconal, which I pay out of pocket for due to the three-prescription-per-month limit. Normally, though, at least in Texas, Medicaid won't reimburse for more than 100 tablets of Parnate in one prescription, which would mean 300 tablets per month (100mg / day) would be my upper limit. However, my new pdoc has worked with them to prearrange for the possibility of higher doses should they prove necessary, and Medicaid has agreed to pay for whatever is necessary considering my history of extreme treatment-resistance. After all, it is much less expensive than ECT or many other drugs I've been on, e.g., Provigil and Desoxyn!
Also, I of course do not want to rely on the State to pay for my drugs for the rest of my life, and I really struck gold the other day when I took an old computer monitor to a local repair shop for an extra $20 only to be offered a full-time position as server administrator for small businesses! Apparently they've been looking for someone who knows Linux and Unix for quite some time, so my switching from Windows to Linux and the resultant in-depth studying I've done into programming has really paid off! Parnate costs about $1 per tablet, and it (even at this early point in treatment) is worth more than its weight in gold to me and I'd be willing to pay however much it ends up costing me.
~Michael
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