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  • Eylea covered by Medicare?

    From KenK@21:1/5 to All on Thu Jul 13 18:11:18 2017
    I was just scheduled for some Eylea injections yesterday. I Googled it and evidently they are $2000 each! If not covered by medicare I'm in big
    trouble. I sure hope they work!

    Any experiece anyone?

    TIA


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  • From The Real Bev@21:1/5 to The Real Bev on Thu Jul 13 13:08:08 2017
    On 07/13/2017 12:58 PM, The Real Bev wrote:
    On 07/13/2017 11:11 AM, KenK wrote:
    I was just scheduled for some Eylea injections yesterday. I Googled it and >> evidently they are $2000 each! If not covered by medicare I'm in big
    trouble. I sure hope they work!

    Any experiece anyone?

    The webpage refers to some sort of financial assistance if medicare
    doesn't cover it. I wish the ophthoprofessionals were still here --
    they knew about shit!

    https://www.macular.org/eylea-injection-treatment

    http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/commentary/ct-pharmaceutical-drug-costs-20151211-story.html
    indicates that it's covered by Medicare.

    http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/business/biotech/sdut-avastin-lucentis-medicare-genentech-roche-2014apr12-story.html

    Likewise. Have you tried Avastin?


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  • From The Real Bev@21:1/5 to KenK on Thu Jul 13 12:58:47 2017
    On 07/13/2017 11:11 AM, KenK wrote:
    I was just scheduled for some Eylea injections yesterday. I Googled it and evidently they are $2000 each! If not covered by medicare I'm in big
    trouble. I sure hope they work!

    Any experiece anyone?

    The webpage refers to some sort of financial assistance if medicare
    doesn't cover it. I wish the ophthoprofessionals were still here --
    they knew about shit!

    https://www.macular.org/eylea-injection-treatment

    http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/commentary/ct-pharmaceutical-drug-costs-20151211-story.html
    indicates that it's covered by Medicare.

    I tend not to trust "I was cured!" reviews -- people claim they were
    cured by homeopathic drugs too.

    FWIW, my MIL had photocoagulation 12 years ago -- just squeezed in under
    the final testing phase so it didn't cost her anything. She got what
    she paid for -- it worked for perhaps 1 day and then went back to "Is
    that an E?" vision. I don't think they do that any more.

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  • From wade@lippman.info@21:1/5 to KenK on Wed Jul 19 16:35:58 2017
    On Thursday, July 13, 2017 at 2:11:22 PM UTC-4, KenK wrote:
    I was just scheduled for some Eylea injections yesterday. I Googled it and evidently they are $2000 each! If not covered by medicare I'm in big
    trouble. I sure hope they work!

    Any experiece anyone?

    TIA


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    Is this a prescription or a procedure? If you have a supplement or advantage plan you would want to ask them; it may well vary be company.

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